1 Changes in version 0.4.8.3-rc - 2023-08-04
2 This is the first release candidate (and likely the only) of the 0.4.8.x
3 series. We fixed a major conflux bugfix which was a fatal asserts on the
4 relay Exit side. See below for more details. Couple minor bugfixes. Until
5 stable, name of the game here is stabilization.
7 o Major bugfixes (conflux):
8 - Fix a relay-side assert crash caused by attempts to use a conflux
9 circuit between circuit close and free, such that no legs were on
10 the conflux set. Fixed by nulling out the stream's circuit back-
11 pointer when the last leg is removed. Additional checks and log
12 messages have been added to detect other cases. Fixes bug 40827;
13 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
15 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
16 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 04, 2023.
17 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on July 26, 2023.
19 o Minor features (geoip data):
20 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
21 retrieved on 2023/07/26.
22 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
23 retrieved on 2023/08/04.
25 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
26 - Fix all -Werror=enum-int-mismatch warnings. No behavior change.
27 Fixes bug 40824; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
29 o Minor bugfixes (protocol warn):
30 - Wrap a handful of cases where ProtocolWarning logs could emit IP
31 addresses. Fixes bug 40828; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
34 Changes in version 0.4.8.2-alpha - 2023-07-12
35 This is our second alpha containing some minor bugfixes and one major bugfix
36 about L2 vanguard rotation. We believe this will be the last alpha before the
37 rc in a couple of weeks.
39 o Major bugfixes (vanguards):
40 - Rotate to a new L2 vanguard whenever an existing one loses the
41 Stable or Fast flag. Previously, we would leave these relays in
42 the L2 vanguard list but never use them, and if all of our
43 vanguards end up like this we wouldn't have any middle nodes left
44 to choose from so we would fail to make onion-related circuits.
45 Fixes bug 40805; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
48 - Fix compiler warnings in equix and hashx when building with clang.
51 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
52 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on July 12, 2023.
54 o Minor features (geoip data):
55 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
56 retrieved on 2023/07/12.
58 o Minor bugfix (congestion control):
59 - Reduce the accepted range of a circuit's negotiated 'cc_sendme_inc'
60 to be +/- 1 from the consensus parameter value. Fixes bug 40569;
61 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
62 - Remove unused congestion control algorithms and BDP calculation
63 code, now that we have settled on and fully tuned Vegas. Fixes bug
64 40566; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
65 - Update default congestion control parameters to match consensus.
66 Fixes bug 40709; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
68 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
69 - Fix "initializer is not a constant" compilation error that
70 manifests itself on gcc versions < 8.1 and MSVC. Fixes bug 40773;
71 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha
73 o Minor bugfixes (conflux):
74 - Count leg launch attempts prior to attempting to launch them. This
75 avoids inifinite launch attempts due to internal circuit building
76 failures. Additionally, double-check that we have enough exits in
77 our consensus overall, before attempting to launch conflux sets.
78 Fixes bug 40811; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
79 - Fix a case where we were resuming reading on edge connections that
80 were already marked for close. Fixes bug 40801; bugfix
82 - Fix stream attachment order when creating conflux circuits, so
83 that stream attachment happens after finishing the full link
84 handshake, rather than upon set finalization. Fixes bug 40801;
85 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
86 - Handle legs being closed or destroyed before computing an RTT
87 (resulting in warns about too many legs). Fixes bug 40810; bugfix
89 - Remove a "BUG" warning from conflux_pick_first_leg that can be
90 triggered by broken or malicious clients. Fixes bug 40801; bugfix
93 o Minor bugfixes (KIST):
94 - Prevent KISTSchedRunInterval from having values of 0 or 1, neither
95 of which work properly. Additionally, make a separate
96 KISTSchedRunIntervalClient parameter, so that the client and relay
97 KIST values can be set separately. Set the default of both to 2ms.
98 Fixes bug 40808; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
101 Changes in version 0.4.8.1-alpha - 2023-06-01
102 This is the first alpha of the 0.4.8.x series. Two major features in this
103 version which are Conflux and onion service Proof-of-Work (PoW). There are
104 also many small features in particular, worth noting, the MetricsPort is now
105 exporting more relay and onion service metrics. Finally, there are
106 also numerous minor bugfixes included in this version.
108 o Major features (onion service, proof-of-work):
109 - Implement proposal 327 (Proof-Of-Work). This is aimed at thwarting
110 introduction flooding DoS attacks by introducing a dynamic Proof-Of-Work
111 protocol that occurs over introduction circuits. This introduces several
112 torrc options prefixed with "HiddenServicePoW" in order to control this
113 feature. By default, this is disabled. Closes ticket 40634.
115 o Major features (conflux):
116 - Implement Proposal 329 (conflux traffic splitting). Conflux splits
117 traffic across two circuits to Exits that support the protocol.
118 These circuits are pre-built only, which means that if the pre-
119 built conflux pool runs out, regular circuits will then be used.
120 When using conflux circuit pairs, clients choose the lower-latency
121 circuit to send data to the Exit. When the Exit sends data to the
122 client, it maximizes throughput, by fully utilizing both circuits
123 in a multiplexed fashion. Alternatively, clients can request that
124 the Exit optimize for latency when transmitting to them, by
125 setting the torrc option 'ConfluxClientUX latency'. Onion services
126 are not currently supported, but will be in arti. Many other
127 future optimizations will also be possible using this protocol.
130 o Major features (dirauth):
131 - Directory authorities and relays now interact properly with
132 directory authorities if they change addresses. In the past, they
133 would continue to upload votes, signatures, descriptors, etc to
134 the hard-coded address in the configuration. Now, if the directory
135 authority is listed in the consensus at a different address, they
136 will direct queries to this new address. Implements ticket 40705.
138 o Minor feature (CI):
139 - Update CI to use Debian Bullseye for runners.
141 o Minor feature (client, IPv6):
142 - Make client able to pick IPv6 relays by default now meaning
143 ClientUseIPv6 option now defaults to 1. Closes ticket 40785.
145 o Minor feature (compilation):
146 - Fix returning something other than "Unknown N/A" as libc version
147 if we build tor on an O.S. like DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD
150 o Minor feature (cpuworker):
151 - Always use the number of threads for our CPU worker pool to the
152 number of core available but cap it to a minimum of 2 in case of a
153 single core. Fixes bug 40713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
155 o Minor feature (lzma):
156 - Fix compiler warnings for liblzma >= 5.3.1. Closes ticket 40741.
158 o Minor feature (MetricsPort, relay):
159 - Expose time until online keys expires on the MetricsPort. Closes
162 o Minor feature (MetricsPort, relay, onion service):
163 - Add metrics for the relay side onion service interactions counting
164 seen cells. Closes ticket 40797. Patch by "friendly73".
166 o Minor features (directory authorities):
167 - Directory authorities now include their AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr
168 config option in the consensus parameter section of their vote.
169 Now external tools can better predict how they will behave.
170 Implements ticket 40753.
172 o Minor features (directory authority):
173 - Add a new consensus method in which the "published" times on
174 router entries in a microdesc consensus are all set to a
175 meaningless fixed date. Doing this will make the download size for
176 compressed microdesc consensus diffs much smaller. Part of ticket
177 40130; implements proposal 275.
179 o Minor features (network documents):
180 - Clients and relays no longer track the "published on" time
181 declared for relays in any consensus documents. When reporting
182 this time on the control port, they instead report a fixed date in
183 the future. Part of ticket 40130.
185 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
186 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 01, 2023.
188 o Minor features (geoip data):
189 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
190 retrieved on 2023/06/01.
192 o Minor features (hs, metrics):
193 - Add tor_hs_rend_circ_build_time and tor_hs_intro_circ_build_time
194 histograms to measure hidden service rend/intro circuit build time
195 durations. Part of ticket 40757.
197 o Minor features (metrics):
198 - Add a `reason` label to the HS error metrics. Closes ticket 40758.
199 - Add service side metrics for REND and introduction request
200 failures. Closes ticket 40755.
201 - Add support for histograms. Part of ticket 40757.
203 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
204 - Automatically restart managed Pluggable Transport processes when
205 their process terminate. Resolves ticket 33669.
207 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
208 - Use OpenSSL 1.1 APIs for LibreSSL, fixing LibreSSL 3.5
209 compatibility. Fixes issue 40630; patch by Alex Xu (Hello71).
211 o Minor features (relay):
212 - Do not warn about configuration options that may expose a non-
213 anonymous onion service. Closes ticket 40691.
215 o Minor features (relays):
216 - Trigger OOS when bind fails with EADDRINUSE. This improves
217 fairness when a large number of exit connections are requested,
218 and properly signals exhaustion to the network. Fixes issue 40597;
219 patch by Alex Xu (Hello71).
221 o Minor features (tests):
222 - Avoid needless key reinitialization with OpenSSL during unit
223 tests, saving significant time. Patch from Alex Xu.
225 o Minor bugfix (relay, logging):
226 - The wrong max queue cell size was used in a protocol warning
227 logging statement. Fixes bug 40745; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
229 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
230 - Avoid ""double-quoting"" strings in several log messages. Fixes
231 bug 22723; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
232 - Correct a log message when cleaning microdescriptors. Fixes bug
233 40619; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
235 o Minor bugfixes (metrics):
236 - Decrement hs_intro_established_count on introduction circuit
237 close. Fixes bug 40751; bugfix on 0.4.7.12.
239 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports, windows):
240 - Remove a warning `BUG()` that could occur when attempting to
241 execute a non-existing pluggable transport on Windows. Fixes bug
242 40596; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
244 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
245 - Remove a "BUG" warning for an acceptable race between a circuit
246 close and considering that circuit active. Fixes bug 40647; bugfix
248 - Remove a harmless "Bug" log message that can happen in
249 relay_addr_learn_from_dirauth() on relays during startup. Finishes
250 fixing bug 40231. Fixes bug 40523; bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
252 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
253 - Allow membarrier for the sandbox. And allow rt_sigprocmask when
254 compiled with LTTng. Fixes bug 40799; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
255 - Fix sandbox support on AArch64 systems. More "*at" variants of
256 syscalls are now supported. Signed 32 bit syscall parameters are
257 checked more precisely, which should lead to lower likelihood of
258 breakages with future compiler and libc releases. Fixes bug 40599;
259 bugfix on 0.4.4.3-alpha.
261 o Minor bugfixes (state file):
262 - Avoid a segfault if the state file doesn't contains TotalBuildTimes
263 along CircuitBuildAbandonedCount being above 0. Fixes bug 40437;
264 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
267 - Remove the RendPostPeriod option. This was primarily used in
268 Version 2 Onion Services and after its deprecation isn't needed
269 anymore. Closes ticket 40431. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
272 Changes in version 0.4.7.13 - 2023-01-12
273 This version contains three major bugfixes, two for relays and one for
274 client being a security fix, TROVE-2022-002. We have added, for Linux, the
275 support for IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT for relays using OutboundBindAddress.
276 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version considering the important
277 congestion control fix detailed below.
279 o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
280 - Avoid incrementing the congestion window when the window is not
281 fully in use. Thia prevents overshoot in cases where long periods
282 of low activity would allow our congestion window to grow, and
283 then get followed by a burst, which would cause queue overload.
284 Also improve the increment checks for RFC3742. Fixes bug 40732;
285 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
287 o Major bugfixes (relay):
288 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
289 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
290 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
291 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
292 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
293 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
296 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
297 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
298 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
299 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
300 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
302 o Minor feature (authority):
303 - Reject 0.4.6.x series at the authority level. Closes ticket 40664.
305 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
306 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
308 o Minor features (geoip data):
309 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
310 retrieved on 2023/01/12.
312 o Minor features (relays):
313 - Set the Linux-specific IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT option on outgoing
314 sockets, allowing relays using OutboundBindAddress to make more
315 outgoing connections than ephemeral ports, as long as they are to
316 separate destinations. Related to issue 40597; patch by Alex
319 o Minor bugfixes (relay, metrics):
320 - Fix typo in a congestion control label on the MetricsPort. Fixes
321 bug 40727; bugfix on 0.4.7.12.
323 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox, authority):
324 - With the sandbox enabled, allow to write "my-consensus-
325 {ns|microdesc}" and to rename them as well. Fixes bug 40729;
326 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
328 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
329 - Rely on actual error returned by the kernel when choosing what
330 resource exhaustion to log. Fixes issue 40613; Fix
331 on tor-0.4.6.1-alpha.
334 Changes in version 0.4.5.16 - 2023-01-12
335 This version has one major bugfix for relay and a security fix,
336 TROVE-2022-002, affecting clients. We strongly recommend to upgrade to our
337 0.4.7.x stable series. As a reminder, this series is EOL on February 15th,
340 o Major bugfixes (relay):
341 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
342 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
343 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
344 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
345 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
346 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
349 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
350 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
351 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
352 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
353 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
355 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
356 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
358 o Minor features (geoip data):
359 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
360 retrieved on 2023/01/12.
363 Changes in version 0.4.7.12 - 2022-12-06
364 This version contains a major change that is a new key for moria1. Also, new
365 metrics are exported on the MetricsPort for the congestion control
368 o Directory authority changes (moria1):
369 - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They
370 have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys
371 periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid
372 confusion. Closes ticket 40722.
374 o Minor feature (Congestion control metrics):
375 - Add additional metricsport relay metrics for congestion control.
378 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
379 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
381 o Minor features (geoip data):
382 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
383 retrieved on 2022/12/06.
385 o Minor bugfixes (cpuworker, relay):
386 - Fix an off by one overload calculation on the number of CPUs being
387 used by our thread pool. Fixes bug 40719; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
390 Changes in version 0.4.5.15 - 2022-12-06
391 This version has several major changes for directory authorities. And a
392 major bugfix on OSX. Again, we strongly recommend to upgrade to our 0.4.7.x
393 series latest stable. This series is EOL on February 15th, 2023.
395 o Directory authority changes (dizum):
396 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
398 o Directory authority changes (Faravahar):
399 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
400 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
402 o Directory authority changes (moria1):
403 - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They
404 have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys
405 periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid
406 confusion. Closes ticket 40722.
408 o Major bugfixes (OSX):
409 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
410 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
411 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
412 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
415 o Major bugfixes (relay):
416 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
417 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
419 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
420 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
422 o Minor features (geoip data):
423 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
424 retrieved on 2022/12/06.
427 Changes in version 0.4.7.11 - 2022-11-10
428 This version contains several major fixes aimed at helping defend against
429 network denial of service. It is also extending drastically the MetricsPort
430 for relays to help us gather more internal data to investigate performance
433 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
434 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
436 o Directory authority changes (dizum, Faravahar):
437 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
438 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
439 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
441 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
442 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
443 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network
444 allocations. We are updating the database to use the one generated
445 on August 9th, 2022. Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
447 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
448 - Set a much higher circuit build timeout for opened client rendezvous
449 circuit. Before this, tor would time them out very quickly leading to
450 unnecessary retries meaning more load on the network. Fixes bug 40694;
451 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
453 o Major bugfixes (OSX):
454 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
455 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
456 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
457 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
460 o Major bugfixes (relay):
461 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
462 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
464 o Minor feature (Mac and iOS build):
465 - Change how combine_libs works on Darwin like platforms to make
466 sure we don't include any `__.SYMDEF` and `__.SYMDEF SORTED`
467 symbols on the archive before we repack and run ${RANLIB} on the
468 archive. This fixes a build issue with recent Xcode versions on
469 Mac Silicon and iOS. Closes ticket 40683.
471 o Minor feature (metrics):
472 - Add various congestion control counters to the MetricsPort. Closes
475 o Minor feature (performance):
476 - Bump the maximum amount of CPU that can be used from 16 to 128. Note
477 that NumCPUs torrc option overrides this hardcoded maximum. Fixes bug
478 40703; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
480 o Minor feature (relay):
481 - Make an hardcoded value for the maximum of per CPU tasks into a
483 - Two new consensus parameters are added to control the wait time in
484 queue of the onionskins. One of them is the torrc
485 MaxOnionQueueDelay options which supersedes the consensus
486 parameter. Closes ticket 40704.
488 o Minor feature (relay, DoS):
489 - Apply circuit creation anti-DoS defenses if the outbound circuit
490 max cell queue size is reached too many times. This introduces two
491 new consensus parameters to control the queue size limit and
492 number of times allowed to go over that limit. Closes ticket 40680.
494 o Minor feature (relay, metrics):
495 - Add DoS defenses counter to MetricsPort.
496 - Add congestion control RTT reset counter to MetricsPort.
497 - Add counters to the MetricsPort how many connections, per type,
498 are currently opened and how many were created.
499 - Add relay flags from the consensus to the MetricsPort.
500 - Add total number of opened circuits to MetricsPort.
501 - Add total number of streams seen by an Exit to the MetricsPort.
502 - Add traffic stats as in number of read/written bytes in total.
503 - Related to ticket 40194.
505 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
506 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 10, 2022.
508 o Minor features (geoip data):
509 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
510 retrieved on 2022/11/10.
512 o Minor bugfixes (authorities, sandbox):
513 - Allow to write file my-consensus-<flavor-name> to disk when
514 sandbox is activated. Fixes bug 40663; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
516 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth):
517 - Directory authorities stop voting a consensus "Measured" weight
518 for relays with the Authority flag. Now these relays will be
519 considered unmeasured, which should reserve their bandwidth for
520 their dir auth role and minimize distractions from other roles. In
521 place of the "Measured" weight, they now include a
522 "MeasuredButAuthority" weight (not used by anything) so the
523 bandwidth authority's opinion on this relay can be recorded for
524 posterity. Lastly, remove the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth
525 torrc option which never worked right. Fixes bugs 40698 and 40700;
526 bugfix on 0.4.7.2-alpha.
528 o Minor bugfixes (onion service client):
529 - A collapsing onion service circuit should be seen as an
530 "unreachable" error so it can be retried. Fixes bug 40692; bugfix
533 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
534 - Make the service retry a rendezvous if the circuit is being
535 repurposed for measurements. Fixes bug 40696; bugfix
538 o Minor bugfixes (relay overload statistics):
539 - Count total create cells vs dropped create cells properly, when
540 assessing if our fraction of dropped cells is too high. We only
541 count non-client circuits in the denominator, but we would include
542 client circuits in the numerator, leading to surprising log lines
543 claiming that we had dropped more than 100% of incoming create
544 cells. Fixes bug 40673; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
546 o Code simplification and refactoring (bridges):
547 - Remove unused code related to ExtPort connection ID. Fixes bug
548 40648; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
551 Changes in version 0.4.7.10 - 2022-08-12
552 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
553 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
554 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
557 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
558 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
559 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
560 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
561 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.7.9.
564 Changes in version 0.4.6.12 - 2022-08-12
565 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
566 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
567 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
570 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
571 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
572 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
573 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
574 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.6.11.
577 Changes in version 0.4.5.14 - 2022-08-12
578 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
579 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
580 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
583 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
584 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
585 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
586 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
587 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
590 Changes in version 0.4.7.9 - 2022-08-11
591 This version contains several major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
592 relays and possible side-channel. It also contains a major bugfix related to
593 congestion control also aimed at reducing memory pressure on relays.
594 Finally, there is last one major bugfix related to Vanguard L2 layer node
597 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
598 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
600 o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
601 - Implement RFC3742 Limited Slow Start. Congestion control was
602 overshooting the congestion window during slow start, particularly
603 for onion service activity. With this fix, we now update the
604 congestion window more often during slow start, as well as dampen
605 the exponential growth when the congestion window grows above a
606 capping parameter. This should reduce the memory increases guard
607 relays were seeing, as well as allow us to set lower queue limits
608 to defend against ongoing DoS attacks. Fixes bug 40642; bugfix
611 o Major bugfixes (relay):
612 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
613 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
614 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
615 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
616 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
617 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
618 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
620 o Major bugfixes (vanguards):
621 - We had omitted some checks for whether our vanguards (second layer
622 guards from proposal 333) overlapped. Now make sure to pick each
623 of them to be independent. Also, change the design to allow them
624 to come from the same family. Fixes bug 40639; bugfix
627 o Minor features (dirauth):
628 - Add a torrc option to control the Guard flag bandwidth threshold
629 percentile. Closes ticket 40652.
630 - Add an AuthDirVoteGuard torrc option that can allow authorities to
631 assign the Guard flag to the given fingerprints/country code/IPs.
632 This is a needed feature mostly for defense purposes in case a DoS
633 hits the network and relay start losing the Guard flags too fast.
634 - Make UPTIME_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE, MTBF_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE,
635 TIME_KNOWN_TO_GUARANTEE_FAMILIAR WFU_TO_GUARANTEE_GUARD tunable
638 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
639 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
641 o Minor features (geoip data):
642 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
643 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
645 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control):
646 - Add a check for an integer underflow condition that might happen
647 in cases where the system clock is stopped, the ORconn is blocked,
648 and the endpoint sends more than a congestion window worth of non-
649 data control cells at once. This would cause a large congestion
650 window to be calculated instead of a small one. No security
651 impact. Fixes bug 40644; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
653 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
654 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
655 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
656 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
657 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
659 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
660 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
661 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
662 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
665 Changes in version 0.4.6.11 - 2022-08-11
666 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
667 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
668 stability or safety purposes.
670 This is the very LAST version of this series. As of August 1st 2022, it is
671 end-of-life (EOL). We thus strongly recommend to upgrade to the latest
672 stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
674 o Major bugfixes (relay):
675 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
676 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
677 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
678 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
679 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
680 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
681 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
683 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
684 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
686 o Minor features (geoip data):
687 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
688 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
690 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
691 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
692 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
694 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
695 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
696 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
697 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
698 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
699 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
701 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
702 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
703 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
704 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
705 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
707 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
708 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
709 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
710 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
712 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
713 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
714 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
715 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
716 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
718 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
719 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
720 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
722 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
723 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
724 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
725 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
726 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
727 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
729 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
730 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
731 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
732 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
735 Changes in version 0.4.5.13 - 2022-08-11
736 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
737 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
738 stability or safety purposes. We strongly recommend to upgrade your relay to
739 this version or, ideally, to the latest stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
741 o Major bugfixes (relay):
742 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
743 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
744 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
745 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
746 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
747 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
748 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
750 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
751 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
753 o Minor features (geoip data):
754 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
755 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
757 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
758 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
759 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
761 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
762 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
763 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
764 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
765 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
766 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
768 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
769 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
770 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
771 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
772 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
774 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
775 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
776 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
777 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
779 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
780 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
781 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
782 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
783 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
785 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
786 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
787 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
789 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
790 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
791 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
792 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
793 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
794 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
796 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
797 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
798 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
799 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
802 Changes in version 0.4.7.8 - 2022-06-17
803 This version fixes several bugfixes including a High severity security issue
804 categorized as a Denial of Service. Everyone running an earlier version
805 should upgrade to this version.
807 o Major bugfixes (congestion control, TROVE-2022-001):
808 - Fix a scenario where RTT estimation can become wedged, seriously
809 degrading congestion control performance on all circuits. This
810 impacts clients, onion services, and relays, and can be triggered
811 remotely by a malicious endpoint. Tracked as CVE-2022-33903. Fixes
812 bug 40626; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
814 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
815 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 17, 2022.
817 o Minor features (geoip data):
818 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
819 retrieved on 2022/06/17.
821 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
822 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
823 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
824 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
826 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
827 - Demote a harmless warn log message about finding a second hop to
828 from warn level to info level, if we do not have enough
829 descriptors yet. Leave it at notice level for other cases. Fixes
830 bug 40603; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
831 - Demote a notice log message about "Unexpected path length" to info
832 level. These cases seem to happen arbitrarily, and we likely will
833 never find all of them before the switch to arti. Fixes bug 40612;
834 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
836 o Minor bugfixes (relay, logging):
837 - Demote a harmless XOFF log message to from notice level to info
838 level. Fixes bug 40620; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
841 Changes in version 0.4.7.7 - 2022-04-27
842 This is the first stable version of the 0.4.7.x series. This series includes
843 several major bugfixes from previous series and one massive new feature:
846 Congestion control should improve traffic speed and stability on the network
847 once a majority of Exit upgrade. You can find more details about it in
848 proposal 324 in the torspec.git repository.
850 For a complete list of changes since 0.4.6.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
852 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
853 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 27, 2022.
855 o Minor features (geoip data):
856 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
857 retrieved on 2022/04/27.
859 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control, client side logs):
860 - Demote a warn about 1-hop circuits using congestion control down to
861 info; Demote the 4-hop case to notice. Fixes bug 40598; bugfix on
865 Changes in version 0.4.7.6-rc - 2022-04-07
866 This is the first release candidate of the 0.4.7.x series. Only one minor
867 bugfix went in since the last alpha couple weeks ago. We strongly recommend
868 anyone running an alpha version to upgrade to this version. Unless major
869 problems are found, the next release will finally be the stable!
871 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
872 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 07, 2022.
874 o Minor features (geoip data):
875 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
876 retrieved on 2022/04/07.
878 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
879 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
880 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
883 Changes in version 0.4.7.5-alpha - 2022-03-25
884 This version contains, of what we hope, the final work for congestion
885 control paving the way to the stable version. We expect this to be the last
886 alpha version of the 0.4.7.x series. Mostly minor bugfixes except one major
887 bugfix that changes how Tor behaves with DNS timeouts for Exit relays. As
888 always with an alpha, we recommend all relay operators to upgrade from
889 previous alpha to this one.
891 o Major bugfixes (onion service, congestion control):
892 - Fix the onion service upload case where the congestion control
893 parameters were not added to the right object. Fixes bug 40586;
894 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
896 o Major bugfixes (relay, DNS):
897 - Lower the DNS timeout from 3 attempts at 5 seconds each to 2
898 attempts at 1 seconds each. Two new consensus parameters were
899 added to control these values. This change should improve observed
900 performance under DNS load; see ticket for more details. Fixes bug
901 40312; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
903 o Minor features (control port):
904 - Provide congestion control fields on CIRC_BW and STREAM control
905 port events, for use by sbws. Closes ticket 40568.
907 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
908 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on March 25, 2022.
910 o Minor features (geoip data):
911 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
912 retrieved on 2022/03/25.
914 o Minor bugfixes (DNSPort, dormant mode):
915 - A request on the DNSPort now wakes up a dormant tor. Fixes bug
916 40577; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
918 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
919 - Fix the metrics with a port label to be unique. Before this, all
920 ports of an onion service would be on the same line which violates
921 the Prometheus rules of unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix
924 o Minor bugfixes (onion service congestion control):
925 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in the case where we fail to
926 set up congestion control on a rendezvous circuit. This could
927 happen naturally if a cache entry expired at an unexpected time.
928 Fixes bug 40576; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
930 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
931 - Fix a rare but fatal assertion failure due to a guard subsystem
932 recursion triggered by the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579;
933 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
935 o Minor bugfixes (relay, overload):
936 - Decide whether to signal overload based on a fraction and
937 assessment period of ntor handshake drops. Previously, a single
938 drop could trigger an overload state, which caused many false
939 positives. Fixes bug 40560; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
942 Changes in version 0.4.7.4-alpha - 2022-02-25
943 This version contains the negotiation congestion control work which is the
944 final part needed before going stable. There are also various bugfixes
945 including two major ones detailed below. Last, the Exit notice page layout
946 has been modernized but the text is unchanged. We recommend that all relay
947 operators running any previous alpha upgrade to this one.
949 o Major features (relay, client, onion services):
950 - Implement RTT-based congestion control for exits and onion
951 services, from Proposal 324. Disabled by default. Enabled by the
952 'cc_alg' consensus parameter. Closes ticket 40444.
954 o Major bugfixes (client):
955 - Stop caching TCP connect failures to relays/bridges when we
956 initiated the connection as a client. Now we only cache connect
957 failures as a relay or bridge when we initiated them because of an
958 EXTEND request. Declining to re-attempt the client-based
959 connections could cause problems when we lose connectivity and try
960 to reconnect. Fixes bug 40499; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
962 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
963 - Do not trigger a general overload on DNS timeout. Even after
964 fixing 40527, some code remained that triggered the overload.
965 Fixes bug 40564; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
967 o Minor feature (authority, relay):
968 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.3.5.x. Closes
971 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
972 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 25, 2022.
974 o Minor features (geoip data):
975 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
976 retrieved on 2022/02/25.
978 o Minor bugfix (logging):
979 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
980 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
982 o Minor bugfix (relay):
983 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
984 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
987 o Minor bugfixes (cell scheduling):
988 - Avoid writing empty payload with NSS write.
989 - Don't attempt to write 0 bytes after a cell scheduling loop. No
990 empty payload was put on the wire. Fixes bug 40548; bugfix
993 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
994 - Resume being able to build on old / esoteric gcc versions. Fixes
995 bug 40550; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
997 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
998 - Fix couple compiler warnings on latest Ubuntu Jammy. Fixes bug
999 40516; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1002 - Provide an improved version of the tor-exit-notice.html file for
1003 exit relays to use as a landing page. The text is unchanged, but
1004 the page design and layout are significantly modernized, and
1005 several links are fixed. Patch from "n_user"; closes ticket 40529.
1008 Changes in version 0.4.6.10 - 2022-02-04
1009 This version contains minor bugfixes but one in particular is that relays
1010 don't advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
1012 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1013 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
1015 o Minor features (geoip data):
1016 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1017 retrieved on 2022/02/04.
1019 o Minor bugfix (logging):
1020 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
1021 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1023 o Minor bugfix (relay):
1024 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
1025 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
1028 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
1029 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
1030 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1033 Changes in version 0.4.5.12 - 2022-02-04
1034 This version contains mostly minor bugfixes for which you can find the
1035 details below. The previous release (0.4.5.11) was suppose to update the
1036 GeoIP and fallbackdir lists but a problem in our release pipeline prevented
1037 those files to be updated correctly. Thus, this release regenerates up to
1038 date lists. Furthermore, another fix to highlight is that relays don't
1039 advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
1041 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
1042 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
1043 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
1046 o Minor features (compilation):
1047 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
1048 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
1049 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
1050 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
1053 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1054 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
1056 o Minor features (geoip data):
1057 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1058 retrieved on 2022/02/04.
1060 o Minor bugfix (logging):
1061 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
1062 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1064 o Minor bugfix (relay):
1065 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
1066 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
1069 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1070 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
1071 that does not support expanding statically initialized const
1072 values in macro's. Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha
1073 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1074 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1075 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1076 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1078 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
1079 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
1080 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1082 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1083 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1084 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1085 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1086 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1089 Changes in version 0.4.7.3-alpha - 2021-12-15
1090 This third alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series fixes several bugs including
1091 two major ones affecting Bridges and Relays (see below). If you are running
1092 an earlier 0.4.7.x version, you should upgrade to this version.
1094 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
1095 - Make Tor work reliably again when you have multiple bridges
1096 configured and one or more of them are unreachable. The problem
1097 came because we require that we have bridge descriptors for both
1098 of our first two bridges (else we refuse to try to connect), but
1099 in some cases we would wait three hours before trying to fetch
1100 these missing descriptors, and/or never recover when we do try to
1101 fetch them. Fixes bugs 40396 and 40495; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc
1104 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
1105 - Change the MetricsPort DNS "timeout" label to be "tor_timeout" in
1106 order to indicate that this was a DNS timeout from tor perspective
1107 and not the DNS server itself.
1108 - Deprecate overload_dns_timeout_period_secs and
1109 overload_dns_timeout_scale_percent consensus parameters as well.
1110 They were used to assess the overload state which is no more now.
1111 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
1112 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
1113 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
1114 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1116 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
1117 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
1118 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
1121 o Minor features (compilation):
1122 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
1123 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
1124 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
1125 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
1128 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1129 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
1131 o Minor features (geoip data):
1132 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1133 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
1135 o Minor features (portability):
1136 - Try to prevent a compiler warning about printf arguments that
1137 could sometimes occur on MSYS2 depending on the configuration.
1138 Closes ticket 40355.
1140 o Minor bugfix (pluggable transport):
1141 - Do not kill a managed proxy if one of its transport configurations
1142 emits a method error. Instead log a warning and continue processing
1143 method arguments. Fixes bug 7362; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1145 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
1146 - When we don't yet have a descriptor for one of our bridges,
1147 disable the entry guard retry schedule on that bridge. The entry
1148 guard retry schedule and the bridge descriptor retry schedule can
1149 conflict, e.g. where we mark a bridge as "maybe up" yet we don't
1150 try to fetch its descriptor yet, leading Tor to wait (refusing to
1151 do anything) until it becomes time to fetch the descriptor. Fixes
1152 bug 40497; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
1154 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1155 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1156 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1157 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1158 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1160 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
1161 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
1162 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
1163 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
1164 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
1165 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1167 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1168 - When we no longer have enough directory information to use the
1169 network, we would log a notice-level message -- but we would not
1170 reliably log a message when we recovered and resumed using the
1171 network. Now make sure there is always a corresponding message
1172 about recovering. Fixes bug 40496; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1174 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
1175 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
1176 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
1177 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
1178 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
1179 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1181 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1182 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1183 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1184 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1185 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1187 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
1188 - Fix the sandbox on i386 by modifying it to allow the
1189 "clock_gettime64" and "statx" system calls and to filter the
1190 "chown32" and "stat64" system calls in place of "chown" and
1191 "stat", respectively. Fixes bug 40505; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1193 o Documentation (man, relay):
1194 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
1195 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1198 Changes in version 0.4.6.9 - 2021-12-15
1199 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One important
1200 piece is the removal of DNS timeout metric from the overload general signal.
1201 See below for more details.
1203 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
1204 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
1205 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
1206 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
1207 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1209 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
1210 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
1211 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
1214 o Minor features (compilation):
1215 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
1216 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
1217 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
1218 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
1221 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1222 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
1224 o Minor features (geoip data):
1225 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1226 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
1228 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1229 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1230 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1231 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1232 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1234 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1235 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1236 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1237 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1238 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1240 o Documentation (man, relay):
1241 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
1242 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1245 Changes in version 0.4.7.2-alpha - 2021-10-26
1246 This second alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series adds two major
1247 features: congestion control (prop324) for network performance, and
1248 the MiddleOnly flag (prop335) voted by the authorities to pin relays
1249 to the middle position for various network health reasons. This
1250 release also fixes numerous bugs.
1252 The congestion control feature, detailed in proposal 324, still needs
1253 more work before we can enable it by default. It is currently in its
1254 testing and tuning phase which means that you should expect more
1255 0.4.7.x alphas as congestion control gets stabilized and tuned for
1256 optimal performance. And so, at this release, it can not be used
1257 without a custom patch.
1259 o Major features (congestion control):
1260 - Implement support for flow control over congestion controlled
1261 circuits. This work comes from proposal 324. Closes ticket 40450.
1263 o Major features (directory authority):
1264 - Add a new consensus method to handle MiddleOnly specially. When
1265 enough authorities are using this method, then any relay tagged
1266 with the MiddleOnly flag will have its Exit, Guard, HSDir, and
1267 V2Dir flags automatically cleared, and will have its BadExit flag
1268 automatically set. Implements part of proposal 335.
1269 - Authorities can now be configured to label relays as "MiddleOnly".
1270 When voting for this flag, authorities automatically vote against
1271 Exit, Guard, HSDir, and V2Dir; and in favor of BadExit. Implements
1272 part of proposal 335. Based on a patch from Neel Chauhan.
1274 o Major bugfix (relay, metrics):
1275 - On the MetricsPort, the DNS error statistics are not reported by
1276 record type ("record=...") anymore due to a libevent bug
1277 (https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/1219). Fixes bug
1278 40490; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1280 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
1281 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
1282 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
1283 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
1284 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
1285 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
1286 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1288 o Minor feature (authority, relay):
1289 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.4.2.x, 0.4.3.x,
1290 0.4.4.x and 0.4.5 alphas/rc. Closes ticket 40480.
1292 o Minor feature (onion service v2):
1293 - Onion service v2 addresses are now not recognized anymore by tor
1294 meaning a bad hostname is returned when attempting to pass it on a
1295 SOCKS connection. No more deprecation log is emitted client side.
1296 Closes ticket 40476.
1297 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1298 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1300 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1301 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1304 o Minor features (logging, heartbeat):
1305 - When a relay receives a cell that isn't encrypted properly for it,
1306 but the relay is the last hop on the circuit, the relay now counts
1307 how many cells of this kind it receives, on how many circuits, and
1308 reports this information in the log. Previously, we'd log each
1309 cell at PROTOCOL_WARN level, which is far too verbose to be
1310 useful. Fixes part of ticket 40400.
1312 o Minor features (testing):
1313 - We now have separate fuzzers for the inner layers of v3 onion
1314 service descriptors, to prevent future bugs like 40392. Closes
1317 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1318 - Fix compilation error when __NR_time is not defined. Fixes bug
1319 40465; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1321 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth, bandwidth scanner):
1322 - Add the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth dirauth config parameter
1323 to avoid voting on bandwidth scanner weights to v3 directory
1324 authorities. Fixes bug 40471; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Patch by
1327 o Minor bugfixes (fragile-hardening, sandbox):
1328 - When building with --enable-fragile-hardening, add or relax Linux
1329 seccomp rules to allow AddressSanitizer to execute normally if the
1330 process terminates with the sandbox active. This has the side
1331 effect of disabling the filtering of file- and directory-open
1332 requests on most systems and dilutes the effectiveness of the
1333 sandbox overall, as a wider range of system calls must be
1334 permitted. Fixes bug 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1336 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1337 - If a channel has never received or transmitted a cell, or seen a
1338 client, do not calculate time diffs against 1/1/1970 but log a
1339 better prettier message. Fixes bug 40182; bugfix on 0.2.4.4.
1341 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1342 - Fix a warning BUG that would occur often on heavily loaded onion
1343 service leading to filling the logs with useless warnings. Fixes
1344 bug 34083; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1346 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1347 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1348 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1350 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, config):
1351 - Fix a memory leak for a small config line string that could occur
1352 if the onion service failed to be configured from file properly.
1353 Fixes bug 40484; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1355 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
1356 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1357 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1358 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1359 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1360 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1361 - Note that due to #40476 which removes v2 support entirely, this
1362 log line is not emitted anymore. We still mention this in the
1363 changelog because it is a Low-severity TROVE.
1365 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
1366 - Do not log "RENDEZVOUS1 cell with unrecognized rendezvous cookie"
1367 at LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. This warning can
1368 happen naturally if a client gives up on a rendezvous circuit
1369 after sending INTRODUCE1. Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix
1371 - Do not log "circuit_receive_relay_cell failed" at
1372 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. In every case where we
1373 would want to log this as a protocol warning, we are already
1374 logging another warning from inside circuit_receive_relay_cell.
1375 Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
1377 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1378 - Lower the official maximum for "guard-extreme-restriction-percent"
1379 to 100. This has no effect on when the guard code will generate a
1380 warning, but it makes the intent of the option clearer. Fixes bug
1381 40486; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1384 - Add unit tests for the Linux seccomp sandbox. Resolves
1387 o Code simplification and refactoring (rust):
1388 - Remove Rust support and its associated code. It is unsupported and
1389 Rust focus should be shifted to arti. Closes ticket 40469.
1391 o Testing (CI, chutney):
1392 - Bump the data size that chutney transmits to 5MBytes in order to
1393 trigger the flow control and congestion window code. Closes
1397 Changes in version 0.4.6.8 - 2021-10-26
1398 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One
1399 highlight is a fix on how we track DNS timeouts to report general
1402 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
1403 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
1404 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
1405 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
1406 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
1407 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
1408 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1410 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1411 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1414 o Minor features (testing):
1415 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1416 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1417 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1418 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1419 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1420 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1421 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1422 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1423 fix for ticket 40337.
1424 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1425 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1426 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1428 o Minor bugfix (onion service):
1429 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1430 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1431 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
1432 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
1433 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1434 - Improve logging when a bad HS version is given. Fixes bug 40476;
1435 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1437 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1438 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1439 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1441 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1442 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1443 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1444 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1445 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1448 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
1449 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1450 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1451 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1452 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1453 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1456 Changes in version 0.4.5.11 - 2021-10-26
1457 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
1458 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
1459 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
1460 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
1461 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
1462 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
1465 o Major feature (onion service v2):
1466 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1467 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1468 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
1469 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
1471 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
1472 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
1473 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
1474 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
1476 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1477 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1478 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1479 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1481 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1482 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1485 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1486 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
1487 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
1488 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
1489 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
1491 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1492 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1493 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1494 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1495 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1496 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1497 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1498 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1499 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1500 fix for ticket 40337.
1501 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1502 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1503 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1505 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1506 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1507 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1509 o Minor bugfix (onion service, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1510 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1511 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1512 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
1513 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
1514 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1516 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1517 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1518 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1519 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1520 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1523 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1524 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
1525 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
1526 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
1527 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1529 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1530 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1531 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1532 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1533 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1534 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1537 Changes in version 0.3.5.17 - 2021-10-26
1538 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
1539 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
1540 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
1541 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
1542 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
1543 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
1546 o Major feature (onion service v2, backport from 0.4.5.11):
1547 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1548 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1549 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
1550 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
1552 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
1553 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
1554 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
1555 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
1557 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1558 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1559 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1560 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1562 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1563 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1566 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1567 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1568 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1569 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1570 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1574 Changes in version 0.4.7.1-alpha - 2021-09-17
1575 This version is the first alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series. One
1576 major feature is Vanguards Lite, from proposal 333, to help mitigate
1577 guard discovery attacks against onion services. It also includes
1580 o Major features (Proposal 332, onion services, guard selection algorithm):
1581 - Clients and onion services now choose four long-lived "layer 2"
1582 guard relays for use as the middle hop in all onion circuits.
1583 These relays are kept in place for a randomized duration averaging
1584 1 week. This mitigates guard discovery attacks against clients and
1585 short-lived onion services such as OnionShare. Long-lived onion
1586 services that need high security should still use the Vanguards
1587 addon (https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards). Closes ticket
1588 40363; implements proposal 333.
1590 o Minor features (bridge testing support):
1591 - Let external bridge reachability testing tools discard cached
1592 bridge descriptors when setting new bridges, so they can be sure
1593 to get a clean reachability test. Implements ticket 40209.
1595 o Minor features (fuzzing):
1596 - When building with --enable-libfuzzer, use a set of compiler flags
1597 that works with more recent versions of the library. Previously we
1598 were using a set of flags from 2017. Closes ticket 40407.
1600 o Minor features (testing configuration):
1601 - When TestingTorNetwork is enabled, skip the permissions check on
1602 hidden service directories. Closes ticket 40338.
1603 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1604 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1605 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1606 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1607 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1608 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1609 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1610 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1611 fix for ticket 40337.
1612 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1613 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1614 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1616 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
1617 - Don't send STOP circuit padding cells when the other side has
1618 already shut down the corresponding padding machine. Fixes bug
1619 40435; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1621 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1622 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1623 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1624 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1625 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1628 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
1629 - Allows the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1630 sandbox is enabled. Makes SAVECONF keep only one backup file, to
1631 simplify implementation. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1632 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1634 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
1635 - Adjust the heartbeat log message about distinct clients to
1636 consider the HeartbeatPeriod rather than a flat 6-hour delay.
1637 Fixes bug 40330; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1639 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
1640 - Add spaces between the "and" when logging the "Your server has not
1641 managed to confirm reachability for its" on dual-stack relays.
1642 Fixes bug 40453; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1644 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1645 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1646 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1647 connections before uploading a new descriptor which leads to
1648 wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit path
1649 selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1651 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
1652 - Fix a fencepost issue when we check stability_last_downrated where
1653 we called rep_hist_downrate_old_runs() twice. Fixes bug 40394;
1654 bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1656 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
1657 - Fix a bug that prevented some tests from running with the correct
1658 names. Fixes bug 40365; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1661 - Add links to original tor design paper and anonbib to
1662 docs/HACKING/README.1st.md. Closes ticket 33742. Patch from
1664 - Describe the "fingerprint-ed25519" file in the tor.1 man page.
1665 Fixes bug 40467; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1668 Changes in version 0.4.6.7 - 2021-08-16
1669 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor,
1670 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone
1671 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion
1672 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1674 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1675 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between
1676 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature
1677 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered
1678 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue
1679 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on
1680 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and
1681 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence.
1683 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1684 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1686 o Minor features (geoip data):
1687 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1688 retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1690 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1691 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna.
1692 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry
1695 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1696 - Send back the extended SOCKS error 0xF6 (Onion Service Invalid
1697 Address) for a v2 onion address. Fixes bug 40421; bugfix
1700 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1701 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW
1702 in order to reduce CPU load on the directory relays. Fixes bug
1703 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1705 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping):
1706 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
1707 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
1708 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
1709 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
1710 which could result in assertion failures when calculating voting
1711 schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1714 Changes in version 0.4.5.10 - 2021-08-16
1715 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor,
1716 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone
1717 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion
1718 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1720 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1721 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between
1722 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature
1723 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered
1724 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue
1725 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on
1726 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and
1727 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence.
1729 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1730 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1732 o Minor features (geoip data):
1733 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1734 retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1736 o Minor features (testing):
1737 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
1738 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
1741 o Minor bugfix (crypto, backport from 0.4.6.7):
1742 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna.
1743 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry
1746 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.7):
1747 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
1748 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1750 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping, backport from 0.4.6.7):
1751 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
1752 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
1753 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
1754 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
1755 which could result in assertion failures when calculating voting
1756 schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1758 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, portability, backport from 0.4.6.6):
1759 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
1760 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1763 Changes in version 0.3.5.16 - 2021-08-16
1764 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor,
1765 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone
1766 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion
1767 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1769 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1770 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between
1771 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature
1772 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered
1773 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue
1774 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on
1775 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and
1776 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence.
1778 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1779 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1781 o Minor features (geoip data):
1782 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1783 retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1785 o Minor bugfix (crypto, backport from 0.4.6.7):
1786 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna.
1787 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry
1790 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.7):
1791 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
1792 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1795 Changes in version 0.4.6.6 - 2021-06-30
1796 Tor 0.4.6.6 makes several small fixes on 0.4.6.5, including one that
1797 allows Tor to build correctly on older versions of GCC. You should
1798 upgrade to this version if you were having trouble building Tor
1799 0.4.6.5; otherwise, there is probably no need.
1801 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1802 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
1803 that does not support const variables in static initializers.
1804 Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.6.5.
1805 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
1806 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1808 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1809 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
1810 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
1814 Changes in version 0.4.5.9 - 2021-06-14
1815 Tor 0.4.5.9 fixes several security issues, including a
1816 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1817 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1818 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1820 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1821 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1822 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1823 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1824 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1825 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1826 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1828 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1829 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1830 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1831 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1832 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1833 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1834 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1835 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1837 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1838 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1839 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1840 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1841 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1842 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1843 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1844 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1845 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1846 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1847 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1848 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1849 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1850 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1851 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1853 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1854 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1855 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1856 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1859 o Minor features (geoip data):
1860 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1861 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1863 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1864 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1865 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
1866 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
1867 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
1868 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
1871 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1872 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
1873 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
1877 Changes in version 0.4.4.9 - 2021-06-14
1878 Tor 0.4.4.9 fixes several security issues, including a
1879 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1880 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1881 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1883 Note that the scheduled end-of-life date for the Tor 0.4.4.x series is
1884 June 15. This is therefore the last release in its series. Everybody
1885 still running 0.4.4.x should plan to upgrade to 0.4.5.x or later.
1887 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1888 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1889 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1890 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1891 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1892 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1893 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1895 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1896 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1897 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1898 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1899 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1900 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1901 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1902 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1904 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1905 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1906 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1907 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1908 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1909 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1910 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1911 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1912 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1913 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1914 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1915 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1916 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1917 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1918 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1920 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1921 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1922 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1923 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1926 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1927 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1928 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1930 o Minor features (geoip data):
1931 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1932 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1934 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1935 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
1936 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
1937 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
1939 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1940 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1941 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1944 Changes in version 0.3.5.15 - 2021-06-14
1945 Tor 0.3.5.15 fixes several security issues, including a
1946 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1947 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1948 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1950 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1951 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1952 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1953 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1954 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1955 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1956 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1958 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1959 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1960 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1961 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1962 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1963 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1964 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1965 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1967 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1968 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1969 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1970 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1971 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1972 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1973 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1974 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1975 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1976 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1977 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1978 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1979 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1980 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1981 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1983 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1984 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1985 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1987 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1988 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1989 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1990 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1993 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1994 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1995 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1997 o Minor features (geoip data):
1998 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1999 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2002 Changes in version 0.4.6.5 - 2021-06-14
2003 Tor 0.4.6.5 is the first stable release in its series. The 0.4.6.x
2004 series includes numerous features and bugfixes, including a significant
2005 improvement to our circuit timeout algorithm that should improve
2006 observed client performance, and a way for relays to report when they are
2009 This release also includes security fixes for several security issues,
2010 including a denial-of-service attack against onion service clients,
2011 and another denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should
2012 upgrade to one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
2014 Below are the changes since 0.4.6.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
2015 since 0.4.5.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
2017 o Major bugfixes (security):
2018 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
2019 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
2020 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2021 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2022 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2023 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2025 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth):
2026 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2027 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2028 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2029 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2030 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2031 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2032 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2034 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
2035 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2036 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2037 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2038 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2039 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2040 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2041 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2042 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2043 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2044 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2045 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2046 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2047 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2048 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2050 o Minor features (geoip data):
2051 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2052 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2054 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
2055 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
2056 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
2057 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
2058 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
2061 Changes in version 0.4.6.4-rc - 2021-05-28
2062 Tor 0.4.6.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous releases. This, we hope,
2063 the final release candidate in its series: unless major new issues are
2064 found, the next release will be stable.
2066 o Minor features (compatibility):
2067 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2068 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2069 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2072 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling):
2073 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
2074 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
2075 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
2076 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2078 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
2079 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
2080 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
2081 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
2082 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
2083 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
2086 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
2087 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
2088 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
2092 - Remove unneeded code for parsing private keys in directory
2093 documents. This code was only used for client authentication in v2
2094 onion services, which are now unsupported. Closes ticket 40374.
2097 Changes in version 0.4.5.8 - 2021-05-10
2098 Tor 0.4.5.8 fixes several bugs in earlier version, backporting fixes
2099 from the 0.4.6.x series.
2101 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2102 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
2103 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
2104 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
2105 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
2107 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2108 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
2109 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
2111 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2112 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2113 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2115 o Minor features (geoip data):
2116 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2117 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
2119 o Minor features (onion services):
2120 - Add warning message when connecting to now deprecated v2 onion
2121 services. As announced, Tor 0.4.5.x is the last series that will
2122 support v2 onions. Closes ticket 40373.
2124 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2125 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
2126 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
2127 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
2129 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2130 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
2131 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
2132 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2134 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2135 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
2136 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
2137 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
2139 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2140 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2141 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2143 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.4.6.1-alpha):
2144 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
2145 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
2146 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2148 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2149 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
2150 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
2151 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2153 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2154 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
2155 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2159 Changes in version 0.4.6.3-rc - 2021-05-10
2160 Tor 0.4.6.3-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
2161 a few small bugs from previous versions, and adds a better error
2162 message when trying to use (no longer supported) v2 onion services.
2164 Though we anticipate that we'll be doing a bit more clean-up between
2165 now and the stable release, we expect that our remaining changes will
2166 be fairly simple. There will likely be at least one more release
2167 candidate before 0.4.6.x is stable.
2169 o Major bugfixes (onion service, control port):
2170 - Make the ADD_ONION command properly configure client authorization.
2171 Before this fix, the created onion failed to add the client(s).
2172 Fixes bug 40378; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
2174 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox):
2175 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
2176 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
2177 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
2178 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
2180 o Minor features (compilation):
2181 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
2182 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
2184 o Minor features (geoip data):
2185 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2186 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
2188 o Minor features (onion services):
2189 - Add a warning message when trying to connect to (no longer
2190 supported) v2 onion services. Closes ticket 40373.
2192 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation):
2193 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
2194 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
2195 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2197 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
2198 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2199 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2201 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
2202 - Emit a warning if an Address is found to be internal and tor can't
2203 use it. Fixes bug 40290; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2205 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak):
2206 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
2207 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
2208 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2211 Changes in version 0.4.6.2-alpha - 2021-04-15
2212 Tor 0.4.6.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes several
2213 small bugs in previous releases, and solves other issues that had
2214 enabled denial-of-service attacks and affected integration with
2217 o Minor features (client):
2218 - Clients now check whether their streams are attempting to re-enter
2219 the Tor network (i.e. to send Tor traffic over Tor), and close
2220 them preemptively if they think exit relays will refuse them for
2221 this reason. See ticket 2667 for details. Closes ticket 40271.
2223 o Minor features (command line):
2224 - Add long format name "--torrc-file" equivalent to the existing
2225 command-line option "-f". Closes ticket 40324. Patch by
2228 o Minor features (dormant mode):
2229 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option to allow coarse-grained
2230 control over whether the client ever becomes dormant from
2231 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
2233 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
2234 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2235 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2237 o Minor features (geoip data):
2238 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2239 retrieved on 2021/04/13.
2241 o Minor features (logging):
2242 - Edit heartbeat log messages so that more of them begin with the
2243 string "Heartbeat: ". Closes ticket 40322; patch
2246 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport):
2247 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
2248 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
2249 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
2251 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS):
2252 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
2253 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
2254 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
2256 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2257 - Fix a compilation warning about unused functions when building
2258 with a libc that lacks the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC constant. Fixes bug
2259 40354; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2261 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2262 - Fix pattern-matching for directories on all platforms when using
2263 %include options in configuration files. This patch also fixes
2264 compilation on musl libc based systems. Fixes bug 40141; bugfix
2267 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2268 - Move the "overload-general" line from extrainfo to the server
2269 descriptor. Fixes bug 40364; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
2271 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD):
2272 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
2273 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2276 o Documentation (manual):
2277 - Move the ServerTransport* options to the "SERVER OPTIONS" section.
2279 - Indicate that the HiddenServiceStatistics option also applies to
2280 bridges. Closes ticket 40346.
2281 - Move the description of BridgeRecordUsageByCountry to the section
2282 "STATISTICS OPTIONS". Closes ticket 40323.
2285 Changes in version 0.4.6.1-alpha - 2021-03-18
2286 Tor 0.4.6.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.4.6.x series. It
2287 improves client circuit performance, adds missing features, and
2288 improves some of our DoS handling and statistics reporting. It also
2289 includes numerous smaller bugfixes.
2291 Below are the changes since 0.4.5.7. (Note that this release DOES
2292 include the fixes for the security bugs already fixed in 0.4.5.7.)
2294 o Major features (control port, onion services):
2295 - Add controller support for creating version 3 onion services with
2296 client authorization. Previously, only v2 onion services could be
2297 created with client authorization. Closes ticket 40084. Patch by
2300 o Major features (directory authority):
2301 - When voting on a relay with a Sybil-like appearance, add the Sybil
2302 flag when clearing out the other flags. This lets a relay operator
2303 know why their relay hasn't been included in the consensus. Closes
2304 ticket 40255. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2306 o Major features (metrics):
2307 - Relays now report how overloaded they are in their extrainfo
2308 documents. This information is controlled with the
2309 OverloadStatistics torrc option, and it will be used to improve
2310 decisions about the network's load balancing. Implements proposal
2311 328; closes ticket 40222.
2313 o Major features (relay, denial of service):
2314 - Add a new DoS subsystem feature to control the rate of client
2315 connections for relays. Closes ticket 40253.
2317 o Major features (statistics):
2318 - Relays now publish statistics about the number of v3 onion
2319 services and volume of v3 onion service traffic, in the same
2320 manner they already do for v2 onions. Closes ticket 23126.
2322 o Major bugfixes (circuit build timeout):
2323 - Improve the accuracy of our circuit build timeout calculation for
2324 60%, 70%, and 80% build rates for various guard choices. We now
2325 use a maximum likelihood estimator for Pareto parameters of the
2326 circuit build time distribution, instead of a "right-censored
2327 estimator". This causes clients to ignore circuits that never
2328 finish building in their timeout calculations. Previously, clients
2329 were counting such unfinished circuits as having the highest
2330 possible build time value, when in reality these circuits most
2331 likely just contain relays that are offline. We also now wait a
2332 bit longer to let circuits complete for measurement purposes,
2333 lower the minimum possible effective timeout from 1.5 seconds to
2334 10ms, and increase the resolution of the circuit build time
2335 histogram from 50ms bin widths to 10ms bin widths. Additionally,
2336 we alter our estimate Xm by taking the maximum of the top 10 most
2337 common build time values of the 10ms histogram, and compute Xm as
2338 the average of these. Fixes bug 40168; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
2339 - Remove max_time calculation and associated warning from circuit
2340 build timeout 'alpha' parameter estimation, as this is no longer
2341 needed by our new estimator from 40168. Fixes bug 34088; bugfix
2344 o Major bugfixes (signing key):
2345 - In the tor-gencert utility, give an informative error message if
2346 the passphrase given in `--create-identity-key` is too short.
2347 Fixes bug 40189; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2349 o Minor features (bridge):
2350 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
2351 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
2352 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
2354 o Minor features (build system):
2355 - New "make lsp" command to auto generate the compile_commands.json
2356 file used by the ccls server. The "bear" program is needed for
2357 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2359 o Minor features (command-line interface):
2360 - Add build informations to `tor --version` in order to ease
2361 reproducible builds. Closes ticket 32102.
2362 - When parsing command-line flags that take an optional argument,
2363 treat the argument as absent if it would start with a '-'
2364 character. Arguments in that form are not intelligible for any of
2365 our optional-argument flags. Closes ticket 40223.
2366 - Allow a relay operator to list the ed25519 keys on the command
2367 line by adding the `rsa` and `ed25519` arguments to the
2368 --list-fingerprint flag to show the respective RSA and ed25519
2369 relay fingerprint. Closes ticket 33632. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2371 o Minor features (control port, stream handling):
2372 - Add the stream ID to the event line in the ADDRMAP control event.
2373 Closes ticket 40249. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2375 o Minor features (dormant mode):
2376 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option for coarse-grained
2377 control over whether the client can become dormant from
2378 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
2380 o Minor features (logging):
2381 - Change the DoS subsystem heartbeat line format to be more clear on
2382 what has been detected/rejected, and which option is disabled (if
2383 any). Closes ticket 40308.
2384 - In src/core/mainloop/mainloop.c and src/core/mainloop/connection.c,
2385 put brackets around IPv6 addresses in log messages. Closes ticket
2386 40232. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2388 o Minor features (performance, windows):
2389 - Use SRWLocks to implement locking on Windows. Replaces the
2390 "critical section" locking implementation with the faster
2391 SRWLocks, available since Windows Vista. Closes ticket 17927.
2392 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2394 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
2395 - Close HAProxy connections if they somehow manage to send us data
2396 before we start reading. Closes another case of ticket 40017.
2398 o Minor features (tests, portability):
2399 - Port the hs_build_address.py test script to work with recent
2400 versions of python. Closes ticket 40213. Patch from
2403 o Minor features (vote document):
2404 - Add a "stats" line to directory authority votes, to report various
2405 statistics that authorities compute about the relays. This will
2406 help us diagnose the network better. Closes ticket 40314.
2408 o Minor bugfixes (build):
2409 - The configure script now shows whether or not lzma and zstd have
2410 been used, not just if the enable flag was passed in. Fixes bug
2411 40236; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2413 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
2414 - Fix a failure in the test cases when running on the "hppa"
2415 architecture, along with a related test that might fail on other
2416 architectures in the future. Fixes bug 40274; bugfix
2419 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2420 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
2421 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
2422 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2424 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, voting):
2425 - Add a new consensus method (31) to support any future changes that
2426 authorities decide to make to the value of bwweightscale or
2427 maxunmeasuredbw. Previously, there was a bug that prevented the
2428 authorities from parsing these consensus parameters correctly under
2429 most circumstances. Fixes bug 19011; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
2431 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
2432 - Allow non-SOCKSPorts to disable IPv4, IPv6, and PreferIPv4. Some
2433 rare configurations might break, but in this case you can disable
2434 NoIPv4Traffic and NoIPv6Traffic as needed. Fixes bug 33607; bugfix
2435 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2437 o Minor bugfixes (key generation):
2438 - Do not require a valid torrc when using the `--keygen` argument to
2439 generate a signing key. This allows us to generate keys on systems
2440 or users which may not run Tor. Fixes bug 40235; bugfix on
2441 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2443 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, logging):
2444 - Downgrade the severity of a few rendezvous circuit-related
2445 warnings from warning to info. Fixes bug 40207; bugfix on
2446 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2448 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2449 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
2450 This should reduce the CPU and memory burden for directory caches.
2451 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2453 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2454 - Remove the orconn_ext_or_id_map structure and related functions.
2455 (Nothing outside of unit tests used them.) Closes ticket 33383.
2456 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2459 - As of this release, Tor no longer supports the old v2 onion
2460 services. They were deprecated last July for security, and support
2461 will be removed entirely later this year. We strongly encourage
2462 everybody to migrate to v3 onion services. For more information,
2463 see https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline . Closes
2464 ticket 40266. (NOTE: We accidentally released an earlier version
2465 of the 0.4.6.1-alpha changelog without this entry. Sorry for
2468 o Code simplification and refactoring (metrics, DoS):
2469 - Move the DoS subsystem into the subsys manager, including its
2470 configuration options. Closes ticket 40261.
2472 o Removed features (relay):
2473 - Because DirPorts are only used on authorities, relays no longer
2474 advertise them. Similarly, self-testing for DirPorts has been
2475 disabled, since an unreachable DirPort is no reason for a relay
2476 not to advertise itself. (Configuring a DirPort will still work,
2477 for now.) Closes ticket 40282.
2480 Changes in version 0.3.5.14 - 2021-03-16
2481 Tor 0.3.5.14 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
2482 in earlier versions of Tor.
2484 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2485 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2486 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2487 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2488 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2489 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2490 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2491 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2492 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2495 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2496 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2499 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
2500 compatibility issue.
2502 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2503 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2504 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2505 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2506 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2507 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2508 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2509 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2510 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2513 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2514 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2515 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2516 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2517 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2518 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2519 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2520 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2523 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2524 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2525 Closes ticket 40309.
2528 Changes in version 0.4.4.8 - 2021-03-16
2529 Tor 0.4.4.8 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
2530 in earlier versions of Tor.
2532 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2533 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2534 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2535 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2536 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2537 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2538 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2539 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2540 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2543 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2544 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2547 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
2548 compatibility issue.
2550 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2551 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2552 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2553 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2554 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2555 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2556 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2557 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2558 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2561 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2562 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2563 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2564 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2565 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2566 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2567 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2568 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2571 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2572 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2573 Closes ticket 40309.
2576 Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16
2577 Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier
2580 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2581 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2582 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2583 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2584 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2585 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2586 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2587 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2588 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2591 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2592 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2595 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few
2596 smaller bugs in earlier releases.
2598 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
2599 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2600 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2601 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2602 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2603 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2604 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2605 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2606 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2609 o Minor features (geoip data):
2610 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2611 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2612 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2613 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2614 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2615 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2616 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2619 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
2620 - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory
2621 authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable
2622 authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug
2623 40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc.
2625 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
2626 - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for
2627 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2629 o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay):
2630 - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would
2631 have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file
2632 had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line.
2633 Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2635 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
2636 - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing
2637 handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2639 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
2640 - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with
2641 onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2643 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2644 - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure
2645 script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2647 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2648 - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6
2649 address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2650 - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when
2651 deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information
2652 from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing
2653 it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch
2654 at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300.
2656 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated):
2657 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2658 Closes ticket 40309.
2661 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15
2662 The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten
2663 Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father.
2664 Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading
2665 the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For
2666 example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the
2667 v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador
2668 to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We
2669 loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his
2670 welcoming approach to growing our community.
2672 This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6
2673 address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators
2674 to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to
2675 help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes
2676 related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous
2677 smaller features and bugfixes.
2679 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
2680 since 0.4.4.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
2682 o Major bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
2683 - Fix a bug that prevented a relay from publishing its descriptor if
2684 an auto-discovered IPv6 that was found unreachable. Fixes bug
2685 40279; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2687 o Minor features (protocol versions):
2688 - Stop claiming to support the "DirCache=1" subprotocol version.
2689 Technically, we stopped supporting this subprotocol back in
2690 0.4.5.1-alpha, but we needed to wait for the authorities to stop
2691 listing it as "required" before we could drop it from the list.
2692 Closes ticket 40221.
2694 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2695 - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions,
2696 when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the
2697 current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but
2698 in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than
2699 the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2701 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
2702 - Fix a bug warning when a metrics port socket was unexpectedly
2703 closed. Fixes bug 40257; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha
2705 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2706 - Allow relays to have a RFC1918 address if PublishServerDescriptor
2707 is set to 0 and AssumeReachable is set to 1. This is to support
2708 the use case of a bridge on a local network, exposed via a
2709 pluggable transport. Fixes bug 40208; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2711 o Minor bugfixes (relay, config):
2712 - Fix a problem in the removal of duplicate ORPorts from the
2713 internal port list when loading the config file. We were removing
2714 the wrong ports, breaking valid torrc uses cases for multiple
2715 ORPorts of the same address family. Fixes bug 40289; bugfix
2719 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03
2720 Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2721 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2722 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2723 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2725 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2726 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2727 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2728 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2729 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2732 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2733 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2734 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2735 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2738 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2739 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2740 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2741 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2743 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2744 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2745 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2746 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2747 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2749 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2750 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2751 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2752 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2753 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2754 weasel for diagnosing this.
2756 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2757 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2758 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2759 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2760 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2761 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2762 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2764 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2765 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2766 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2767 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2769 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2770 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2771 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2772 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2774 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2775 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
2776 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
2777 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2778 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2779 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2780 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2782 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2783 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2786 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03
2787 Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2788 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2789 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2790 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2792 Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x,
2793 which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021.
2795 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2796 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2797 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2798 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2799 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2802 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2803 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2804 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2805 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
2806 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2808 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2809 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2810 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2811 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2814 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2815 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2816 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2817 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2819 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2820 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2821 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2822 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2823 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2825 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2826 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2827 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2828 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2829 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2830 weasel for diagnosing this.
2832 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2833 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2834 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2835 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2836 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2837 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2838 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2840 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2841 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2842 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2844 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2845 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2846 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2847 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2849 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2850 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2851 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2852 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2854 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2855 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
2856 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
2857 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2858 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2859 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2860 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2862 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2863 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2866 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03
2867 Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2868 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2869 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2870 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2872 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2873 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2874 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2875 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2876 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2879 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2880 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2881 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2882 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
2883 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2885 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2886 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2887 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2888 should help mitigate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2891 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2892 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2893 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2894 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2896 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2897 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2898 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2899 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2900 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2902 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2903 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2904 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2905 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2906 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2907 weasel for diagnosing this.
2909 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2910 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2911 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2912 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2913 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2914 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2915 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2917 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2918 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2919 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2921 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2922 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2923 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2924 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2926 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2927 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2928 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2929 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2931 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2932 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2933 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2934 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2936 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2937 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2940 Changes in version 0.4.5.5-rc - 2021-02-01
2941 Tor 0.4.5.5-rc is the third release candidate in its series. We're
2942 coming closer and closer to a stable release series. This release
2943 fixes an annoyance with address detection code, and somewhat mitigates
2944 an ongoing denial-of-service attack.
2946 We anticipate no more code changes between this and the stable
2947 release, though of course that could change.
2949 o Major feature (exit):
2950 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2951 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2952 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2955 o Minor bugfixes (relay, configuration):
2956 - Don't attempt to discover our address (IPv4 or IPv6) if no ORPort
2957 for it can be found in the configuration. Fixes bug 40254; bugfix
2961 Changes in version 0.4.5.4-rc - 2021-01-22
2962 Tor 0.4.5.4-rc is the second release candidate in its series. It fixes
2963 several bugs present in previous releases.
2965 We expect that the stable release will be the same, or almost the
2966 same, as this release candidate, unless serious bugs are found.
2968 o Major bugfixes (authority, IPv6):
2969 - Do not consider multiple relays in the same IPv6 /64 network to be
2970 sybils. Fixes bug 40243; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2972 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
2973 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
2974 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
2975 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
2976 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2978 o Minor feature (build system):
2979 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2980 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2981 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2983 o Minor features (authority, logging):
2984 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
2985 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
2986 Closes ticket 40245.
2987 - Reject obsolete router/extrainfo descriptors earlier and more
2988 quietly, to avoid spamming the logs. Fixes bug 40238; bugfix
2991 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2992 - Fix another warning about unreachable fallthrough annotations when
2993 building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on some compilers.
2994 Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.4.5.3-rc.
2995 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
2996 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
2997 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
2999 o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge):
3000 - Don't initiate a connection to a bridge configured to use a
3001 missing transport. This change reverts an earlier fix that would
3002 try to avoid such situations during configuration chcecking, but
3003 which doesn't work with DisableNetwork. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix
3006 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3007 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
3008 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
3009 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
3011 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
3012 - If we were unable to build our descriptor, don't mark it as having
3013 been advertised. Also remove an harmless BUG(). Fixes bug 40231;
3014 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3017 Changes in version 0.4.5.3-rc - 2021-01-12
3018 Tor 0.4.5.3-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
3019 several bugs, including one that broke onion services on certain older
3020 ARM CPUs, and another that made v3 onion services less reliable.
3022 Though we anticipate that we'll be doing a bit more clean-up between
3023 now and the stable release, we expect that our remaining changes will
3024 be fairly simple. There will be at least one more release candidate
3025 before 0.4.5.x is stable.
3027 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
3028 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
3029 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
3030 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
3031 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
3034 o Minor features (crypto):
3035 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
3036 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
3037 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
3038 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
3039 weasel for diagnosing this.
3041 o Minor features (documentation):
3042 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
3043 approved-routers file, and update the description of the
3044 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
3046 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3047 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
3048 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
3049 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3050 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
3051 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
3054 o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge):
3055 - Really fix the case where torrc has a missing ClientTransportPlugin
3056 but is configured with a Bridge line and UseBridges. Previously,
3057 we didn't look at the managed proxy list and thus would fail for
3058 the "exec" case. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3060 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
3061 - Log our address as reported by the directory authorities, if none
3062 was configured or detected before. Fixes bug 40201; bugfix
3064 - When a launching bandwidth testing circuit, don't incorrectly call
3065 it a reachability test, or trigger a "CHECKING_REACHABILITY"
3066 control event. Fixes bug 40205; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3068 o Minor bugfixes (relay, statistics):
3069 - Report the correct connection statistics in our extrainfo
3070 documents. Previously there was a problem in the file loading
3071 function which would wrongly truncate a state file, causing the
3072 wrong information to be reported. Fixes bug 40226; bugfix
3075 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5):
3076 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
3077 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
3078 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3081 Changes in version 0.4.5.2-alpha - 2020-11-23
3082 Tor 0.4.5.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series.
3083 It fixes several bugs present in earlier releases, including one that
3084 made it impractical to run relays on Windows. It also adds a few small
3085 safety features to improve Tor's behavior in the presence of strange
3086 compile-time options, misbehaving proxies, and future versions
3089 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
3090 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
3091 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
3092 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
3093 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
3094 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
3095 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3097 o Minor features (compilation):
3098 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
3099 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
3100 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
3101 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
3103 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
3104 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
3105 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
3106 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
3107 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
3109 o Minor features (safety):
3110 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
3111 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
3114 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
3115 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
3116 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
3117 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
3118 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
3119 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3121 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3122 - Use the correct 'ranlib' program when building libtor.a.
3123 Previously we used the default ranlib, which broke some kinds of
3124 cross-compilation. Fixes bug 40172; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3125 - Remove a duplicate typedef in metrics_store.c. Fixes bug 40177;
3126 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3127 - When USDT tracing is enabled, and STAP_PROBEV() is missing, don't
3128 attempt to build. Linux supports that macro but not the BSDs.
3129 Fixes bug 40174; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3131 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
3132 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
3133 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
3134 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
3135 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
3136 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
3138 - Fix an issue where an ORPort was compared with other kinds of
3139 ports, when it should have been only checked against other
3140 ORPorts. This bug would lead to "DirPort auto" getting ignored.
3141 Fixes bug 40195; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3142 - Fix a bug where a second non-ORPort with a variant family (ex:
3143 SocksPort [::1]:9050) would be ignored due to a configuration
3144 parsing error. Fixes bug 40183; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3146 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
3147 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
3148 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
3149 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3151 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3152 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
3153 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
3155 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
3156 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
3157 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3159 o Minor bugfixes (relay, address discovery):
3160 - Don't trigger an IP change when no new valid IP can be found.
3161 Fixes bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3162 - When attempting to discover our IP, use a simple test circuit,
3163 rather than a descriptor fetch: the same address information is
3164 present in NETINFO cells, and is better authenticated there. Fixes
3165 bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3167 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3168 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
3169 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
3170 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3171 - Fix unit tests that used newly generated list of routers so that
3172 they check them with respect to the date when they were generated,
3173 not with respect to the current time. Fixes bug 40187; bugfix
3175 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
3176 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
3177 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
3179 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
3180 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3182 o Removed features (controller):
3183 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
3184 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
3187 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
3188 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
3189 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
3190 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
3191 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
3192 intended for a different relay.
3194 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3195 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3196 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3197 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3198 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3199 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3200 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3202 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3203 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
3204 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
3205 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
3206 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
3207 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
3208 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
3209 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
3210 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
3211 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
3212 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
3214 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3215 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3216 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3217 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3218 closes ticket 40133.
3220 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3221 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3222 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3224 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3225 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3226 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3228 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3229 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
3230 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
3231 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
3232 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3233 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3235 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3236 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3237 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3239 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3240 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3241 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3244 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3245 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3246 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3247 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3250 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
3251 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
3252 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3253 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3254 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
3256 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
3257 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
3258 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
3261 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3262 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3263 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3264 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3266 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3267 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3268 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3269 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3270 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3271 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3272 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3274 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3275 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3276 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3277 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3278 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3281 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3282 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3283 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3284 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3285 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3286 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3288 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3289 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3290 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3291 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3292 closes ticket 40133.
3294 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3295 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3296 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3297 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3299 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3300 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3301 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3303 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3304 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3305 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3307 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3308 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3309 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3310 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3311 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3313 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3314 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3315 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3317 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3318 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3319 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3320 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3321 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3322 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3323 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3325 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3326 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3327 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3330 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3331 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3332 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3333 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3334 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3335 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3338 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
3339 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3340 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3341 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3343 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3344 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3345 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3346 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3348 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3349 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3350 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3352 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3353 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3356 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3357 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
3358 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
3359 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
3360 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
3361 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
3362 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
3365 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
3366 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
3367 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3368 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3369 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
3371 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3372 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3373 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3374 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3376 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3377 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3378 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3379 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3380 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3381 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3382 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3384 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3385 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3386 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3387 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3388 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3391 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3392 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3393 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3394 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3395 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3396 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3398 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
3399 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
3400 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
3401 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
3403 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3404 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3405 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3406 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3407 closes ticket 40133.
3409 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3410 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3411 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3412 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3414 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3415 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3416 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3418 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3419 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3420 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3422 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3423 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3424 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3425 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3426 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3428 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3429 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3430 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3432 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3433 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3434 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3435 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3436 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3437 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3438 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3440 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3441 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3442 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3445 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3446 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3447 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3448 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3449 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3450 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3453 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3454 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
3455 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
3456 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3458 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
3459 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3460 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3461 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3463 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3464 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3465 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3467 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3468 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3472 Changes in version 0.4.5.1-alpha - 2020-11-01
3473 Tor 0.4.5.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series. It
3474 improves support for IPv6, address discovery and self-testing, code
3475 metrics and tracing.
3477 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3478 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3479 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay. To
3480 mount this attack, the adversary would need to actively extend
3481 circuits to an incorrect address, as well as compromise a relay's
3482 legacy RSA-1024 key. We'll be backporting this fix to other release
3483 series soon, after it has had some testing.
3485 Here are the changes since 0.4.4.5.
3487 o Major features (build):
3488 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
3489 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
3490 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
3491 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
3492 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
3494 o Major features (metrics):
3495 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
3496 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
3497 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
3498 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
3499 information and security considerations.
3500 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
3501 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
3502 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
3503 Closes ticket 33233.
3504 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
3505 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
3506 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
3507 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
3508 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
3509 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
3510 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
3511 use. Closes ticket 33220.
3512 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
3513 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
3514 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
3515 Closes ticket 34067.
3517 o Major features (tracing):
3518 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
3519 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
3520 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
3521 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
3522 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
3524 o Major bugfixes (security):
3525 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3526 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3527 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3528 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3529 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3530 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3532 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
3533 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
3534 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
3535 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
3536 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
3537 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
3539 o Minor features (address discovery):
3540 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
3541 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
3542 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
3543 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
3545 o Minor features (admin tools):
3546 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
3547 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
3548 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
3551 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
3552 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
3553 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
3554 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
3555 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
3556 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
3558 o Minor features (build):
3559 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
3560 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
3561 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
3562 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
3563 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
3565 o Minor features (configuration):
3566 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
3567 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3568 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
3569 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
3570 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
3571 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3573 o Minor features (control port):
3574 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
3575 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
3576 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
3577 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
3579 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
3580 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
3581 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
3584 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
3585 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
3586 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
3587 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
3588 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
3589 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
3590 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3592 o Minor features (directory authorities):
3593 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
3594 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
3595 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
3596 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
3597 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
3598 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
3599 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
3600 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
3602 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
3603 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
3604 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3605 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
3606 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
3607 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
3608 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
3609 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
3610 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
3611 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
3612 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
3613 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
3614 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
3615 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
3616 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
3618 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
3619 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
3620 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
3621 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
3623 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
3624 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
3625 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
3626 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3628 o Minor features (heartbeat):
3629 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
3630 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
3632 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
3633 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
3634 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3636 o Minor features (logging):
3637 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
3638 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
3639 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
3640 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
3641 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
3642 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
3644 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
3645 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
3646 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
3647 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
3649 o Minor features (onion services):
3650 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
3651 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
3652 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3654 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
3655 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
3656 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
3657 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
3658 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
3659 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
3661 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
3662 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
3663 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
3664 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
3665 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
3666 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
3667 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
3669 o Minor features (relay):
3670 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
3671 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
3672 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
3673 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
3674 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
3675 Closes ticket 34137.
3677 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
3678 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
3679 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
3682 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
3683 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
3684 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
3685 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
3686 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
3687 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
3688 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
3689 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
3690 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
3692 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
3693 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
3695 o Minor features (specification update):
3696 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
3697 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
3698 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
3700 o Minor features (state management):
3701 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
3702 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
3703 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
3704 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
3705 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
3707 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
3708 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
3709 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
3710 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
3711 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
3713 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
3714 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3715 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3716 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3717 closes ticket 40133.
3718 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
3719 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
3721 o Minor features (testing configuration):
3722 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
3723 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
3724 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
3725 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
3727 o Minor features (testing):
3728 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
3729 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
3731 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services):
3732 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3733 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3735 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3736 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3737 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3739 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
3740 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
3741 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
3742 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
3744 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
3745 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
3746 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3747 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
3748 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
3749 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
3750 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
3751 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
3752 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3754 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
3755 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
3756 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
3757 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
3758 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
3759 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
3760 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3762 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3763 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
3764 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
3765 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
3766 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3767 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3769 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
3770 - Fix bug where %including a pattern ending with */ would include
3771 files and folders (instead of folders only) in versions of glibc <
3772 2.19. Fixes bug 40141; bugfix on 0.4.5.0-alpha-dev. Patch by
3775 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
3776 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
3777 when a stream is attached with the purpose
3778 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
3779 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3781 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3782 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3783 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3784 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
3785 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
3786 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
3787 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
3788 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
3791 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash):
3792 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3793 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3796 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
3797 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
3798 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
3799 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3800 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
3801 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
3802 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
3804 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
3805 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
3806 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
3807 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
3808 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
3809 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3811 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
3812 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
3813 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3815 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
3816 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
3817 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3818 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
3819 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
3820 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
3821 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
3822 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3824 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services):
3825 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3826 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3827 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3829 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3830 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
3831 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
3832 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
3833 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
3834 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
3835 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
3836 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
3837 Closes ticket 34200.
3838 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
3839 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
3840 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
3841 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
3842 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
3843 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
3844 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
3846 - Split implementation of several command line options from
3847 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
3848 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
3849 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
3850 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
3851 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
3854 o Deprecated features:
3855 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
3856 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
3857 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
3860 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
3861 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
3864 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
3865 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
3866 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
3867 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
3869 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
3870 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
3872 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
3873 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
3874 directory. Closes part of 40139.
3875 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
3876 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
3880 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
3881 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
3883 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
3884 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
3885 31699; Patch by @bduszel
3887 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
3888 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
3889 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
3890 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
3891 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
3893 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
3894 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
3895 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
3896 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
3897 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
3899 o Documentation (manual page):
3900 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
3901 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
3902 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
3903 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
3905 o Documentation (tracing):
3906 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
3907 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
3910 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
3911 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
3912 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
3913 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
3914 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
3915 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
3916 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
3918 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
3919 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
3920 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
3921 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
3922 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
3924 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
3925 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
3926 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
3928 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
3929 since 0.4.3.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
3931 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
3932 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
3933 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
3934 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
3935 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
3936 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3938 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
3939 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
3940 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
3941 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
3942 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3944 o Minor features (control port):
3945 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
3946 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
3947 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3949 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
3950 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
3951 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
3952 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
3953 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
3954 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
3956 o Minor features (tests):
3957 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3958 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3959 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3961 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection algorithm):
3962 - Avoid needless guard-related warning when upgrading from 0.4.3 to
3963 0.4.4. Fixes bug 40105; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
3965 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
3966 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3967 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3968 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3971 Changes in version 0.4.4.3-alpha - 2020-07-27
3972 Tor 0.4.4.3-alpha fixes several annoyances in previous versions,
3973 including one affecting NSS users, and several affecting the Linux
3976 o Major features (fallback directory list):
3977 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3978 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3979 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3981 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
3982 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3983 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3984 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3985 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3988 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3989 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
3990 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
3991 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
3992 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
3994 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
3995 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
3996 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
3997 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
4000 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
4001 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
4002 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
4003 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
4004 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
4005 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
4009 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
4010 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
4011 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
4014 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
4015 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
4016 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
4017 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
4018 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
4019 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
4022 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
4023 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
4024 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
4026 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4027 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4028 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4029 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4030 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4031 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4032 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4035 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4036 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4037 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4038 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4041 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4042 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
4043 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
4044 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
4045 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
4046 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4048 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4049 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
4050 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
4051 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
4052 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
4053 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4055 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4056 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4057 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4059 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4060 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4061 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4062 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4065 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4066 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4067 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4068 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4071 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
4072 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4073 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4074 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4075 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4077 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4078 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4079 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4081 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4082 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
4083 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
4084 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
4085 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
4088 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4089 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4090 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4091 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4092 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4093 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4095 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4096 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4097 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4098 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4100 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4101 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4102 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4103 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4106 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4107 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4108 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4109 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4110 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4111 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4112 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4113 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4117 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
4118 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
4119 several that affect usability and portability.
4121 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4122 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4123 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4124 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4125 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4126 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4127 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4130 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4131 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4132 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4133 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4136 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4137 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
4138 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
4139 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
4140 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
4141 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4143 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
4144 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
4145 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
4146 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
4147 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
4149 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4150 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
4151 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
4152 code. Closes ticket 33290.
4154 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4155 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
4156 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
4157 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
4158 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
4159 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4161 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4162 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4163 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4165 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4166 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4167 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4168 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4171 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4172 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4173 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4174 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4177 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
4178 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4179 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4180 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4181 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4182 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
4185 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4186 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4187 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4189 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4190 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
4191 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
4192 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4194 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4195 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
4196 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
4197 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
4198 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
4201 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4202 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4203 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4204 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4205 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4206 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4208 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
4209 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
4210 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
4211 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
4212 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4214 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4215 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
4216 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
4217 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
4219 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4220 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4221 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4222 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4224 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4225 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4226 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4227 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4230 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4231 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4232 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4233 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4234 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4235 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4236 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4237 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4241 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
4242 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
4243 some affecting usability.
4245 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4246 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4247 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4248 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4249 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4250 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4251 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4254 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4255 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4256 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4257 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4260 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4261 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4262 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4264 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4265 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4266 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4267 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4270 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4271 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4272 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4274 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4275 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
4276 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
4277 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
4279 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4280 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4281 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4282 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4284 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4285 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
4286 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4288 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4289 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
4290 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
4291 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
4292 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4294 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4295 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
4296 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
4298 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4299 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
4300 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
4301 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4303 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4304 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
4308 Changes in version 0.4.4.2-alpha - 2020-07-09
4309 This is the second alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It fixes a few
4310 bugs in the previous release, and solves a few usability,
4311 compatibility, and portability issues.
4313 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4314 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4315 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4316 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4317 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4318 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4319 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4322 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security):
4323 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4324 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4325 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4328 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
4329 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
4330 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
4331 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
4332 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
4335 o Minor features (directory authority):
4336 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
4337 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
4338 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
4339 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
4340 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
4342 o Minor features (entry guards):
4343 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
4344 Closes ticket 40001.
4346 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
4347 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
4348 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
4349 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
4350 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
4351 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
4352 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
4354 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows):
4355 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4356 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4358 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3 client):
4359 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
4360 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4362 o Minor bugfix (SOCKS, onion service client):
4363 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
4364 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
4367 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
4368 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4369 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4371 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
4372 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
4373 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
4374 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4376 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4377 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4378 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4379 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4381 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
4382 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
4383 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
4386 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
4387 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
4390 o Removed features (IPv6, revert):
4391 - Revert the change in the default value of ClientPreferIPv6OrPort:
4392 it breaks the torsocks use case. The SOCKS resolve command has no
4393 mechanism to ask for a specific address family (v4 or v6), and so
4394 prioritizing IPv6 when an IPv4 address is requested on the SOCKS
4395 interface resulted in a failure. Tor Browser explicitly sets
4396 PreferIPv6, so this should not affect the majority of our users.
4397 Closes ticket 33796; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
4400 Changes in version 0.4.4.1-alpha - 2020-06-16
4401 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It improves
4402 our guard selection algorithms, improves the amount of code that
4403 can be disabled when running without relay support, and includes numerous
4404 small bugfixes and enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6
4405 features that we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
4407 Here are the changes since 0.4.3.5.
4409 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
4410 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
4411 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
4412 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
4413 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
4414 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
4415 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
4416 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
4417 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
4418 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
4420 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
4421 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
4422 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
4423 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
4424 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
4425 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
4426 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
4428 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
4430 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
4431 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
4432 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
4433 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
4435 o Major features (v3 onion services):
4436 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
4437 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
4438 Closes ticket 32709.
4440 o Minor feature (developer tools):
4441 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
4442 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
4444 o Minor feature (onion service client, SOCKS5):
4445 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
4446 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
4447 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
4450 o Minor feature (onion service v3):
4451 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
4452 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4454 o Minor feature (python scripts):
4455 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
4456 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
4457 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
4458 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
4460 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
4461 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
4462 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
4463 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
4464 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
4466 o Minor features (code safety):
4467 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
4468 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
4469 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
4470 Resolves issue 33788.
4472 o Minor features (compilation size):
4473 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
4474 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
4476 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4477 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
4478 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
4479 Resolves ticket 32143.
4481 o Minor features (control port):
4482 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
4483 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
4484 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
4485 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4487 o Minor features (developer tooling):
4488 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
4489 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
4490 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
4491 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
4492 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
4494 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
4495 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
4496 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
4497 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
4499 o Minor features (directory):
4500 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
4501 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
4502 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
4505 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
4506 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
4507 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
4509 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
4510 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
4511 Closes ticket 33901.
4513 o Minor features (logging):
4514 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
4515 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
4517 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
4518 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
4519 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
4520 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
4521 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
4522 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
4523 up from ticket 33316.
4525 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
4526 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
4527 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
4528 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4530 o Minor features (windows):
4531 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
4532 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
4534 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3):
4535 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
4536 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
4537 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
4538 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4540 o Minor bugfix (refactoring):
4541 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
4542 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
4543 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
4545 o Minor bugfixes (client performance):
4546 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4547 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4548 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4551 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
4552 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
4553 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
4554 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
4555 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
4556 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
4558 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
4559 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
4560 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
4561 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4563 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
4564 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
4565 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
4566 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
4567 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4569 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
4570 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
4571 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4573 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
4574 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
4575 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
4576 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
4577 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
4578 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4579 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
4580 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
4581 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
4582 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4584 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox nss):
4585 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
4586 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
4587 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
4589 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
4590 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
4591 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
4592 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
4593 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4595 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
4596 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
4597 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4599 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
4600 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
4601 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
4603 o Minor bugfixes (manual page):
4604 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
4605 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4607 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
4608 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
4609 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4612 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
4613 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
4614 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4616 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
4617 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
4618 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
4620 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
4621 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
4622 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
4625 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
4626 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
4627 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
4628 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4630 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4631 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
4632 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
4633 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
4634 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4635 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
4636 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
4637 isolated in subsystems of their own.
4638 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
4639 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
4640 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
4641 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
4643 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
4644 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
4645 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
4646 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
4650 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
4651 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
4652 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
4653 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
4657 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
4658 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
4659 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
4660 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
4661 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4662 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
4663 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
4666 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
4667 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
4668 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
4669 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
4670 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
4671 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4672 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
4673 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
4675 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
4676 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4678 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4679 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4680 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4681 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
4682 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
4683 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
4684 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
4685 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
4686 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
4687 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
4688 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4689 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4691 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service):
4692 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
4693 code. Closes ticket 33014.
4695 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
4696 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
4697 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
4699 o Documentation (manual page):
4700 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
4701 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
4702 Google Season of Docs.
4703 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
4704 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
4705 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
4706 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4707 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
4708 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
4709 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
4710 Closes ticket 33778.
4713 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
4714 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
4715 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
4716 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
4717 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
4718 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
4721 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
4722 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
4723 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
4724 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
4725 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
4727 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
4728 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
4729 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
4732 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
4733 since 0.4.2.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
4735 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
4736 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4737 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4738 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4739 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4740 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
4743 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4744 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
4745 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4746 - Fix a logic error in a log message about whether an address was
4747 invalid. Previously, the code would never report that onion
4748 addresses were onion addresses. Fixes bug 34131; bugfix
4752 Changes in version 0.4.3.4-rc - 2020-04-13
4753 Tor 0.4.3.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
4754 several bugs from earlier versions, including one affecting DoS
4755 defenses on bridges using pluggable transports.
4757 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
4758 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
4759 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
4760 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
4761 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
4762 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4764 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
4765 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
4766 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
4767 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
4768 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
4770 o Minor features (testing):
4771 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
4772 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
4773 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
4774 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
4775 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4777 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay):
4778 - Fix an assertion failure when Tor is built without the relay
4779 module, and then invoked with the "User" option. Fixes bug 33668;
4780 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4782 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay,--disable-module-dirauth):
4783 - Set some output arguments in the relay and dirauth module stubs,
4784 to guard against future stub argument handling bugs like 33668.
4785 Fixes bug 33674; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4787 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4788 - Correctly output the enabled module in the configure summary.
4789 Before that, the list shown was just plain wrong. Fixes bug 33646;
4790 bugfix on 0.4.3.2-alpha.
4792 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
4793 - Stop forcing all non-SocksPorts to prefer IPv6 exit connections.
4794 Instead, prefer IPv6 connections by default, but allow users to
4795 change their configs using the "NoPreferIPv6" port flag. Fixes bug
4796 33608; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4797 - Revert PreferIPv6 set by default on the SocksPort because it broke
4798 the torsocks use case. Tor doesn't have a way for an application
4799 to request the hostname to be resolved for a specific IP version,
4800 but torsocks requires that. Up until now, IPv4 was used by default
4801 so torsocks is expecting that, and can't handle a possible IPv6
4802 being returned. Fixes bug 33804; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4804 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
4805 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4806 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4807 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4808 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4809 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4811 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4812 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
4813 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
4814 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
4815 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
4816 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
4819 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
4820 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
4821 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
4822 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
4823 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4824 - Block a client-side assertion by disallowing the registration of
4825 an x25519 client auth key that's all zeroes. Fixes bug 33545;
4826 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Based on patch from "cypherpunks".
4828 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4829 - Disable our coding standards best practices tracker in our git
4830 hooks. (0.4.3 branches only.) Closes ticket 33678.
4833 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
4834 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
4835 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
4836 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
4837 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
4841 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4842 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4843 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4844 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4845 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4846 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4847 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4851 Changes in version 0.4.3.3-alpha - 2020-03-18
4852 Tor 0.4.3.3-alpha fixes several bugs in previous releases, including
4853 TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected
4854 all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
4855 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
4856 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
4857 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
4858 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
4859 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
4860 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
4861 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
4864 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4865 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4866 as soon as packages are available.
4868 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
4869 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4870 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4871 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4872 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4873 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4874 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4875 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4876 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4878 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
4879 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4880 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4881 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4882 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4884 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
4885 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
4886 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
4887 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
4888 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
4890 o Minor features (diagnostic):
4891 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
4892 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
4893 code. Closes ticket 33290.
4895 o Minor features (directory authorities):
4896 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
4897 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
4898 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4900 o Minor features (usability):
4901 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
4902 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
4903 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
4905 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
4906 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4907 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4908 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4911 o Minor bugfixes (coding best practices checks):
4912 - Allow the "practracker" script to read unicode files when using
4913 Python 2. We made the script use unicode literals in 0.4.3.1-alpha,
4914 but didn't change the codec for opening files. Fixes bug 33374;
4915 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4917 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
4918 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
4921 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
4922 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4923 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4924 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4927 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
4928 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4929 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4930 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4933 o Documentation (manpage):
4934 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
4935 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
4936 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
4937 Google Season of Docs.
4938 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
4939 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
4941 o Testing (Travis CI):
4942 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4943 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4944 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4946 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4947 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4948 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4949 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4950 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4953 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
4954 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
4955 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
4956 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
4957 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
4958 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
4959 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
4960 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
4961 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
4962 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
4963 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
4964 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
4966 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4967 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4968 as soon as packages are available.
4970 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4971 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4972 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4973 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4974 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4975 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4976 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4977 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4978 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4980 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4981 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4982 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4983 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4984 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4986 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4987 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
4988 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
4989 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
4990 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
4992 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4993 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4994 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4995 Closes ticket 33075.
4997 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4998 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4999 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
5001 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5002 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
5003 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
5004 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
5005 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
5008 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5009 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
5010 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
5011 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5014 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5015 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
5016 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
5017 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5019 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5020 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
5021 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
5022 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
5024 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
5025 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
5026 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
5027 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
5028 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
5031 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
5032 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
5033 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
5034 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
5035 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
5036 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
5037 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
5038 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
5039 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
5040 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
5041 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
5042 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
5044 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
5045 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
5046 as soon as packages are available.
5048 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5049 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
5050 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
5051 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
5052 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
5053 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
5054 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
5055 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
5056 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
5058 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5059 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
5060 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
5061 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
5062 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
5064 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5065 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
5066 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
5068 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5069 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
5070 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
5071 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
5072 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
5075 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5076 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
5077 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
5078 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5081 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5082 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
5083 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
5084 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5086 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5087 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
5088 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
5089 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
5091 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
5092 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
5093 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
5094 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
5095 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
5098 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
5099 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
5100 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
5101 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
5102 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
5103 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
5104 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
5105 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
5106 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
5107 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
5108 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
5111 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
5112 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
5113 as soon as packages are available.
5115 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5116 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
5117 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
5118 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
5119 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
5120 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
5121 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
5122 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
5123 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
5125 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5126 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5127 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5128 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5129 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
5130 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5131 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5132 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5135 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5136 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
5137 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
5138 Closes ticket 33075.
5140 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5141 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
5142 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
5144 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5145 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5146 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5147 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5148 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5150 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5151 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
5152 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
5153 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
5154 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
5157 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5158 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
5159 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
5160 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5163 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5164 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
5165 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
5166 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5168 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5169 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5170 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5171 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5172 Closes ticket 32629.
5173 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5174 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5175 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5177 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5178 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5180 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5181 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
5182 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
5183 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
5185 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
5186 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
5187 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
5188 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
5191 Changes in version 0.4.3.2-alpha - 2020-02-10
5192 This is the second stable alpha release in the Tor 0.4.3.x series. It
5193 fixes several bugs present in the previous alpha release. Anybody
5194 running the previous alpha should upgrade, and look for bugs in this
5197 o Major bugfixes (onion service client, authorization):
5198 - On a NEWNYM signal, purge entries from the ephemeral client
5199 authorization cache. The permanent ones are kept. Fixes bug 33139;
5200 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
5202 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
5203 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
5204 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
5205 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
5207 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5208 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
5209 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
5210 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
5211 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
5212 Closes ticket 33075.
5214 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
5215 - Revise configure options that were either missing or incorrect in
5216 the configure summary. Fixes bug 32230; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
5218 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
5219 - Fix a memory leak introduced by refactoring of control reply
5220 formatting code. Fixes bug 33039; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
5221 - Fix a memory leak in GETINFO responses. Fixes bug 33103; bugfix
5223 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
5224 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
5225 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5227 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5228 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
5229 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
5230 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
5231 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
5233 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
5234 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
5235 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
5236 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5238 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
5239 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
5240 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
5241 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
5243 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
5244 - When removing client authorization credentials using the control
5245 port, also remove the associated descriptor, so the onion service
5246 can no longer be contacted. Fixes bug 33148; bugfix
5249 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
5250 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
5251 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
5252 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5254 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
5255 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
5256 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
5257 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5259 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
5260 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
5261 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
5262 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
5263 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
5265 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
5266 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
5267 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
5269 o Documentation (manpage):
5270 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
5271 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
5272 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
5275 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
5276 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
5277 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
5278 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
5279 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
5280 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
5282 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5283 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5284 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5285 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5286 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
5287 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5288 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5289 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5291 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5292 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5293 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5295 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5296 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
5297 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
5298 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5300 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5301 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
5302 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
5303 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5305 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5306 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
5307 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
5308 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5309 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
5310 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
5313 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5314 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5315 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5317 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5318 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5319 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5320 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5321 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5322 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5323 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5324 Closes ticket 32629.
5326 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5327 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5330 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
5331 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
5332 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
5333 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
5334 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
5335 current version of 0.4.1.x.
5337 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5338 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5339 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5340 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5341 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
5342 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5343 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5344 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5346 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5347 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5348 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5350 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
5351 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5352 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5353 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5354 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5356 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5357 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5358 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5360 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5361 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5362 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5363 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5364 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5365 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5366 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5367 Closes ticket 32629.
5369 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5370 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5373 Changes in version 0.4.3.1-alpha - 2020-01-22
5374 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.3.x series. It includes
5375 improved support for application integration of onion services, support
5376 for building in a client-only mode, and newly improved internal
5377 documentation (online at https://src-ref.docs.torproject.org/tor/). It
5378 also has numerous other small bugfixes and features, as well as
5379 improvements to our code's internal organization that should help us
5380 write better code in the future.
5382 o New system requirements:
5383 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
5384 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
5385 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
5387 o Major features (build system):
5388 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
5389 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
5390 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
5391 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
5392 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
5394 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
5395 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
5396 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
5397 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
5398 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5400 o Major features (onion service, controller):
5401 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
5402 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
5403 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
5404 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
5406 o Major features (onion service, SOCKS5):
5407 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
5408 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
5409 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
5411 o Major features (proxy):
5412 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
5413 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
5414 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
5415 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
5416 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
5417 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
5419 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
5420 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5421 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5422 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5423 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
5424 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5425 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5426 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5428 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5429 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5430 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5432 o Major bugfixes (networking):
5433 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
5434 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
5435 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5437 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
5438 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
5439 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
5440 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
5441 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
5442 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5444 o Minor feature (configure, build system):
5445 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
5446 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
5448 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
5449 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
5450 message. Closes ticket 31371.
5452 o Minor features (configuration validation):
5453 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
5454 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
5455 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
5456 Closes ticket 31241.
5458 o Minor features (configuration):
5459 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
5460 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
5462 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
5463 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
5464 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
5465 Implements ticket 32404.
5467 o Minor features (controller):
5468 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
5469 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
5470 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
5472 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
5473 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
5474 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
5475 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
5477 o Minor features (defense in depth):
5478 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
5479 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
5482 o Minor features (developer tooling):
5483 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
5484 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
5485 Closes ticket 32772.
5487 o Minor features (developer tools):
5488 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
5489 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
5490 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
5491 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
5492 target. Closes ticket 31919.
5493 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
5494 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
5495 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
5497 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
5498 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
5499 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
5500 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
5502 o Minor features (Doxygen):
5503 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
5504 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
5505 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
5507 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
5508 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
5509 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
5510 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
5511 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
5512 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
5513 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
5514 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
5516 o Minor features (git scripts):
5517 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
5518 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
5519 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
5520 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
5521 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
5522 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
5523 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
5524 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
5525 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
5526 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
5527 Closes ticket 32216.
5528 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
5529 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
5530 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
5531 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
5533 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
5534 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
5535 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
5536 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
5537 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
5538 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
5540 o Minor features (portability, android):
5541 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
5542 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
5543 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
5545 o Minor features (relay modularity):
5546 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
5547 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
5548 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
5549 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
5550 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
5551 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
5552 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
5554 o Minor features (relay):
5555 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
5556 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
5558 o Minor features (release tools):
5559 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
5560 Closes ticket 32704.
5562 o Minor features (testing):
5563 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
5564 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
5565 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
5566 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
5567 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
5568 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
5571 o Minor features (tests, Android):
5572 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
5573 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
5574 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
5576 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
5577 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
5578 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
5580 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
5581 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
5582 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
5584 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
5585 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
5586 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
5587 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5589 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
5590 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
5591 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
5592 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
5593 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
5594 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
5595 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
5596 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
5597 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
5598 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
5599 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5600 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
5601 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
5602 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
5603 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5605 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
5606 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
5607 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
5610 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks):
5611 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
5612 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
5613 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5615 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
5616 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
5617 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
5619 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
5620 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
5621 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
5622 Closes ticket 32213.
5623 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
5624 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
5625 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5627 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
5628 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
5629 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
5630 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
5631 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
5634 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
5635 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
5637 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
5638 Closes ticket 32216.
5640 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
5641 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
5642 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
5643 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
5646 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash):
5647 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
5648 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
5649 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5651 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
5652 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
5653 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
5654 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
5655 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
5658 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, client):
5659 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
5660 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
5661 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
5662 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
5663 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5665 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5666 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
5667 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
5668 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
5669 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5671 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
5672 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
5673 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5675 o Minor bugfixes (test):
5676 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
5677 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
5678 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
5681 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5682 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
5683 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5684 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
5685 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
5686 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5687 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
5688 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
5691 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
5692 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
5693 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
5694 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
5695 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
5696 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5698 o Minor bugfixes (windows service):
5699 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5700 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5702 o Deprecated features:
5703 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
5704 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
5705 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
5709 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
5710 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
5711 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
5712 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
5713 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
5714 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
5715 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
5716 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
5718 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
5719 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
5722 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
5723 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
5724 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
5725 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
5726 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
5727 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
5729 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
5730 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
5731 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
5732 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
5733 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
5736 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
5737 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
5739 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
5740 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
5741 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
5742 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
5743 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5744 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5745 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5746 Closes ticket 32629.
5747 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
5749 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5750 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5751 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5753 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
5754 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
5755 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
5757 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
5758 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
5759 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
5760 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
5761 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
5762 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
5763 Solves part of ticket 32339.
5764 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
5765 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
5766 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
5767 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
5768 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
5769 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
5770 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
5771 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
5772 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
5773 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
5775 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
5776 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
5778 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
5779 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
5780 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
5782 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
5783 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
5784 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
5785 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
5786 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
5787 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
5789 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
5790 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
5791 Closes ticket 32163.
5792 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
5794 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
5796 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
5797 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
5798 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
5799 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
5800 Closes ticket 32304.
5801 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
5802 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
5803 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
5804 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
5805 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
5808 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
5809 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
5811 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
5814 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
5815 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
5816 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
5817 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
5818 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
5819 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
5820 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
5821 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
5823 o Documentation (manpage):
5824 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
5826 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
5828 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
5829 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
5830 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
5832 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
5833 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
5834 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
5836 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
5837 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
5840 o Testing (continuous integration):
5841 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5844 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
5845 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
5846 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
5847 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
5848 bugs present in previous series.
5850 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
5851 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
5852 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5853 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5855 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
5856 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
5857 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5858 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5860 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
5861 since 0.4.1.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
5863 o Minor features (geoip):
5864 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5865 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5868 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
5869 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
5870 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5871 Closes ticket 32500.
5874 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
5875 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
5876 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
5877 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
5879 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5880 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
5881 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
5882 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
5884 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5885 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
5886 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
5887 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5889 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5890 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5891 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5892 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5893 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5894 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5895 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5896 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5898 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5899 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5900 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5901 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5902 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5904 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5905 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5906 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5907 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5908 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5911 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5912 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5913 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5914 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5916 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5917 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5918 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5920 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5921 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5922 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5924 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5925 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5926 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5927 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5928 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5929 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5931 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5932 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5933 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5934 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5936 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5937 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5938 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5939 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5940 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5941 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5942 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5943 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
5944 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
5945 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
5948 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5949 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
5950 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5951 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
5952 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5953 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5954 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5955 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5956 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5958 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5959 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5960 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5961 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5963 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5964 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5965 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5966 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5967 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5970 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5971 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
5972 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
5974 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5975 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5976 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5978 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5979 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5980 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5982 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5983 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5984 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5985 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5987 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5988 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5989 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5990 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5991 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5993 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5994 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
5995 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5997 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5998 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5999 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6002 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6003 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
6004 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
6006 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6007 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6008 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6009 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6011 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6012 Closes ticket 31859.
6013 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6014 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6016 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6017 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6018 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6019 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6020 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6021 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6022 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6023 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6024 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6025 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6027 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6028 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6029 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6030 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6031 Closes ticket 32500.
6034 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
6035 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
6036 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
6037 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
6038 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
6040 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
6041 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
6042 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
6043 support until 1 Feb 2022.
6045 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
6046 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6049 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6050 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6051 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6052 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6053 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6054 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6055 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6056 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6057 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6058 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6059 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6061 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6062 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6063 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6064 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6065 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6066 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6068 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6069 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6070 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6071 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6072 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6075 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6076 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6077 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6078 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6079 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6081 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6082 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6083 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6084 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6087 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6088 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
6089 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
6090 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
6091 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
6092 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
6093 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
6094 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6096 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6097 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
6098 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
6099 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
6100 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6102 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6103 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6104 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6105 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6106 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6109 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6110 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6111 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6113 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6114 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6115 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6118 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6119 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6120 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6122 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6123 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
6124 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
6125 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
6127 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6128 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6129 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6130 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6131 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6133 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6134 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6135 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
6137 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6138 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6139 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6142 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6143 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
6144 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6146 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6147 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6148 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6150 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6151 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6152 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6154 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6155 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
6156 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
6159 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6160 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6161 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6162 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6163 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6164 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6166 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6167 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6168 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6169 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6170 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6172 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6173 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6174 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
6177 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6178 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6179 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6181 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6182 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6183 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6184 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6186 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6187 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6188 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6189 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6191 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6192 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6193 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6194 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6196 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
6197 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6198 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6199 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6201 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6202 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6203 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6204 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6205 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6206 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6207 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6209 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6210 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6211 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6212 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6214 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6215 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6216 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6217 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6219 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6220 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6221 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6224 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6225 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6226 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6227 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6228 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6229 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6230 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6232 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6233 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6234 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6235 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6238 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6239 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6240 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6241 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6242 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6244 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6245 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6246 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6247 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6248 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6250 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6251 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6252 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6255 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6256 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6257 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6258 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6259 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6261 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6262 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6263 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6264 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6266 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6267 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6268 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6269 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6270 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6273 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6274 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6275 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6278 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6279 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
6280 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
6281 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6283 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6284 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
6285 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
6286 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
6288 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6289 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6290 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6291 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6293 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6294 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6295 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6296 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6299 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6300 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6301 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6302 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6303 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6304 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6307 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6308 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
6309 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
6311 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
6312 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
6313 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6315 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6316 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6317 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6318 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6320 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6321 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6322 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6324 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6325 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6326 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6327 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6328 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6330 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6331 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6332 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6335 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6336 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6337 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6338 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6339 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6340 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6341 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6342 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6343 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6344 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6346 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6347 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6348 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6349 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6351 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6352 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6353 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6354 Resolves issue 29702.
6356 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6357 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6359 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6360 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6361 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6362 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6365 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6366 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6367 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6368 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6370 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6371 Closes ticket 31859.
6372 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6373 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6375 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6376 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6377 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6378 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6379 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6380 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6381 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6382 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6383 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6384 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6386 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6387 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6388 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6389 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6390 Closes ticket 32500.
6392 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
6393 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
6394 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
6397 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
6398 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6401 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6402 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6403 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6404 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6405 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6406 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6407 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6408 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6409 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6410 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6411 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6413 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6414 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6415 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6416 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6417 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6418 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6420 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6421 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
6422 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
6423 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
6424 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
6425 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6427 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6428 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6429 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6430 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6431 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6434 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6435 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6436 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6437 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6438 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6440 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6441 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6442 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6443 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6446 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6447 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
6448 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
6449 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
6450 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6452 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6453 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6454 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6455 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6456 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6459 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6460 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
6461 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
6462 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
6463 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
6464 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
6465 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
6466 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6468 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6469 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
6470 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
6471 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
6472 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
6475 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6476 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6477 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6479 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6480 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
6481 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
6484 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
6485 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
6486 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
6487 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
6489 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6490 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6491 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6494 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6495 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6496 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6498 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6499 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
6500 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
6501 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
6503 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6504 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6505 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6506 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6507 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6509 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6510 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6511 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
6513 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6514 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
6515 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
6516 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
6518 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6519 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6520 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6523 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6524 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
6525 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
6526 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
6527 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
6528 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
6529 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
6530 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
6531 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
6532 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
6533 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
6534 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
6535 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
6538 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6539 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
6540 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
6541 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
6542 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
6544 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
6545 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
6546 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6548 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6549 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
6550 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6552 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6553 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6554 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6556 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6557 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
6558 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
6561 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6562 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6563 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6565 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6566 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6567 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6568 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6569 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6570 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6572 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6573 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6574 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6575 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6576 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6578 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6579 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6580 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
6583 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6584 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
6585 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6587 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6588 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6589 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6591 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6592 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6593 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6594 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6596 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6597 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6598 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6599 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6601 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6602 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6603 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6604 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6606 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
6607 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6608 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6609 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6611 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6612 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6613 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6614 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6615 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6616 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6617 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6619 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6620 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6621 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6622 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6624 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6625 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6626 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6627 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6629 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6630 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6631 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6634 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6635 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6636 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6637 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6638 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6639 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6640 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6642 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6643 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6644 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6645 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6648 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6649 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6650 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6651 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6652 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6654 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6655 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
6656 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6658 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6659 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
6660 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
6661 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
6662 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6663 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
6664 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
6665 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
6666 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6667 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
6668 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6670 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6671 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6672 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6673 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6674 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6676 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6677 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6678 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6681 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6682 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6683 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6684 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6685 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6687 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6688 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6689 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6690 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6692 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6693 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6694 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6695 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6696 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6699 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6700 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6701 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6704 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6705 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
6706 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
6707 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6709 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6710 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
6711 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
6712 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6714 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6715 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
6716 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6718 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6719 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6720 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6721 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6723 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6724 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6725 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6726 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6729 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6730 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6731 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6732 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6733 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6734 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6737 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6738 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6739 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6740 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6742 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
6743 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
6744 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6746 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6747 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6748 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6750 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6751 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
6752 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
6753 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
6754 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
6755 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
6756 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
6758 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6759 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
6760 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
6763 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6764 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
6765 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
6766 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
6767 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
6768 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
6769 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
6770 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6772 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6773 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
6774 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
6775 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6776 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
6777 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
6780 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6781 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6782 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6783 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6784 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6786 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
6787 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
6788 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
6789 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
6790 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
6791 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
6792 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
6793 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6795 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6796 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6797 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6800 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6801 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6802 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6803 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6804 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6805 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6806 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6807 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6808 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6809 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6811 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6812 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
6813 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
6814 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
6815 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
6816 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6818 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6819 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6820 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6821 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6823 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6824 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6825 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6826 Resolves issue 29702.
6828 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6829 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6831 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6832 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6833 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6834 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6837 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6838 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6839 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6840 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6842 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6843 Closes ticket 31859.
6844 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6845 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6847 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6848 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6849 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6850 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6851 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6852 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6853 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6854 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6855 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6856 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6858 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6859 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6860 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6861 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6862 Closes ticket 32500.
6864 Changes in version 0.4.2.4-rc - 2019-11-15
6865 Tor 0.4.2.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
6866 several bugs from earlier versions, including a few that would result in
6867 stack traces or incorrect behavior.
6869 o Minor features (build system):
6870 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
6871 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
6873 o Minor features (geoip):
6874 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6875 Country database. Closes ticket 32440.
6877 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
6878 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6879 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6880 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6881 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6882 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6884 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
6885 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
6886 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6888 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
6889 - Log the option name when skipping an obsolete option. Fixes bug
6890 32295; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6892 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
6893 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
6894 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
6895 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
6896 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6898 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
6899 - When checking if a directory connection is anonymous, test if the
6900 circuit was marked for close before looking at its channel. This
6901 avoids a BUG() stacktrace if the circuit was previously closed.
6902 Fixes bug 31958; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6904 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
6905 - Fix minor shellcheck errors in the git-*.sh scripts. Fixes bug
6906 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6907 - Start checking most scripts for shellcheck errors again. Fixes bug
6908 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6910 o Testing (continuous integration):
6911 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6912 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6913 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6914 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6915 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6916 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6917 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6918 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6919 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6922 Changes in version 0.4.2.3-alpha - 2019-10-24
6923 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
6924 from earlier versions of Tor.
6926 o Major bugfixes (relay):
6927 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
6928 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
6929 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
6930 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
6931 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
6932 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
6933 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6935 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
6936 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6937 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6938 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6939 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6942 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
6943 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
6944 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
6945 Closes ticket 29669.
6947 o Minor features (testing):
6948 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
6949 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
6950 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
6951 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
6953 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
6954 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6955 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6956 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6958 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6959 Closes ticket 31859.
6960 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6961 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6963 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
6964 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
6965 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6966 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
6968 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
6969 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6970 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
6971 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
6972 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6974 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
6975 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6976 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6977 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6979 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
6980 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
6981 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
6983 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
6984 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6985 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6986 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6987 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6990 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
6991 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
6992 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
6994 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
6995 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
6996 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6998 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6999 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
7000 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
7002 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
7003 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
7004 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
7005 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7007 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
7008 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
7009 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
7012 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
7013 - Fix an implicit conversion from ssize_t to size_t discovered by
7014 Coverity. Fixes bug 31682; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
7015 - Fix a memory leak in an unlikely error code path when encoding HS
7016 DoS establish intro extension cell. Fixes bug 32063; bugfix
7018 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
7019 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
7020 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
7021 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7024 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
7025 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7026 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
7027 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
7028 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
7029 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
7032 Changes in version 0.4.2.2-alpha - 2019-10-07
7033 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
7034 from earlier versions. It also includes a change in authorities, so
7035 that they begin to reject the currently unsupported release series.
7037 o Major features (directory authorities):
7038 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
7039 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
7040 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
7042 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
7043 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
7044 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
7045 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7047 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
7048 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
7049 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
7050 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
7051 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7053 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
7054 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
7055 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
7056 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
7057 Closes ticket 31779.
7059 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7060 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
7061 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
7062 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
7064 o Minor features (geoip):
7065 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 1 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7066 Country database. Closes ticket 31931.
7068 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
7069 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
7070 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
7071 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
7072 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
7073 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
7074 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
7076 o Minor features (onion services v3):
7077 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
7078 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
7081 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
7082 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
7083 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
7085 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
7086 - When listing overbroad exceptions, do not also list problems, and
7087 do not list insufficiently broad exceptions. Fixes bug 31338;
7088 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
7090 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
7091 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
7092 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
7093 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7095 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7096 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
7097 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7098 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
7099 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7100 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
7101 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
7102 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
7103 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
7104 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
7105 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7107 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
7108 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
7109 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
7110 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7112 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
7113 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
7114 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
7117 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
7118 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
7119 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
7121 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7122 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
7123 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
7124 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
7126 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
7127 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
7128 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7130 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7131 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
7132 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
7133 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
7134 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
7135 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
7136 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
7138 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
7142 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
7143 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
7145 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
7146 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
7147 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
7148 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
7149 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
7150 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
7153 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
7154 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
7155 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
7156 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
7159 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7160 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
7161 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
7162 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
7163 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7164 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
7165 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
7166 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
7167 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7169 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7170 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
7171 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
7174 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7175 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
7176 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7178 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7179 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
7180 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
7181 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
7182 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
7184 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
7185 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
7186 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7188 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
7189 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
7190 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
7191 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7193 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7194 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
7195 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
7196 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
7199 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7200 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
7201 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
7202 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
7203 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7205 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7206 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
7207 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
7210 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7211 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
7212 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7214 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7215 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
7216 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
7217 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
7218 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
7219 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7221 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7222 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
7223 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
7224 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
7225 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
7226 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7227 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
7228 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
7229 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
7230 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7232 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7233 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
7234 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
7235 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
7238 Changes in version 0.4.2.1-alpha - 2019-09-17
7239 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.2.x series. It adds new
7240 defenses for denial-of-service attacks against onion services. It also
7241 includes numerous kinds of bugfixes and refactoring to help improve
7242 Tor's stability and ease of development.
7244 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
7245 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
7246 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
7247 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
7248 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
7249 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
7252 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
7253 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
7254 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
7255 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
7256 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
7257 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
7260 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
7261 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
7262 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
7263 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
7264 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7265 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
7266 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
7267 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
7268 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7270 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
7271 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
7272 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
7273 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
7274 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
7275 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
7276 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
7277 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
7278 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
7279 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
7280 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
7281 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
7282 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
7283 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
7284 files. Closes ticket 31175.
7286 o Minor features (build system):
7287 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
7288 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
7289 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
7291 o Minor features (compilation):
7292 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
7293 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
7294 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
7296 o Minor features (configuration):
7297 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
7298 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
7299 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
7300 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
7302 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7303 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
7304 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
7305 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
7307 o Minor features (debugging):
7308 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
7309 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
7310 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
7311 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
7313 o Minor features (git hooks):
7314 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
7315 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
7316 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
7317 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
7318 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
7320 o Minor features (git scripts):
7321 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
7322 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
7323 push. Closes ticket 31314.
7324 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
7325 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
7326 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
7327 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
7328 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
7329 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
7330 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
7331 Closes ticket 31314.
7332 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
7333 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
7334 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
7335 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
7336 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
7337 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
7338 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
7339 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
7340 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
7342 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
7343 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
7344 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
7347 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
7348 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
7349 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
7351 o Minor features (onion service v3):
7352 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
7353 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
7355 o Minor features (onion service):
7356 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
7357 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
7358 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
7359 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
7361 o Minor features (stem tests):
7362 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
7363 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
7366 o Minor features (testing):
7367 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
7368 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
7369 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
7370 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
7371 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
7372 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
7373 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
7374 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
7375 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
7376 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
7377 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
7379 o Minor features (token bucket):
7380 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
7381 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
7383 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
7384 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
7385 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
7386 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7387 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
7388 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
7389 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
7390 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
7393 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
7394 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
7395 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7397 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
7398 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
7399 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
7400 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
7401 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
7402 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
7404 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7405 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
7406 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
7407 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
7408 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
7410 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
7411 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
7412 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7414 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
7415 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
7416 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
7417 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
7419 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
7420 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
7421 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
7422 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
7423 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
7424 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
7425 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
7426 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
7427 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
7428 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7430 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
7431 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
7432 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
7435 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
7436 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
7437 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7439 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
7440 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
7441 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
7442 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7443 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
7444 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
7445 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7446 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
7447 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
7448 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
7451 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
7452 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
7453 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
7454 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
7457 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
7458 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
7459 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
7460 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7462 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
7463 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
7464 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
7465 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7466 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
7467 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7468 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
7469 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
7470 Closes ticket 31678.
7472 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
7473 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
7474 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
7475 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
7476 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7478 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
7479 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
7480 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
7481 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
7482 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7483 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
7484 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
7485 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
7486 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
7489 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7490 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
7491 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
7493 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
7494 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
7495 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
7497 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
7498 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
7499 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
7502 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
7503 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
7504 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
7505 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
7506 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
7507 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
7509 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
7510 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
7511 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
7512 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
7515 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
7516 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
7517 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
7518 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
7519 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7521 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7522 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
7523 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
7524 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
7525 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
7526 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7528 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
7529 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
7530 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
7531 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7533 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
7534 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
7535 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7536 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
7537 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7539 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
7540 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
7541 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
7542 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7544 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
7545 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
7546 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
7547 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
7548 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7550 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
7551 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
7552 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
7553 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
7554 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
7557 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7558 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
7559 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
7562 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
7563 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
7564 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
7565 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
7566 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
7567 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7569 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
7570 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
7571 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
7572 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
7573 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
7574 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7575 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
7576 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
7577 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
7578 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7581 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
7582 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
7583 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
7584 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
7585 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
7586 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
7587 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
7590 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
7591 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
7592 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
7593 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
7594 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
7595 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
7597 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
7601 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
7602 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
7603 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
7604 Closes ticket 30967.
7606 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
7607 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
7608 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
7609 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
7610 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
7611 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
7612 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
7613 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
7614 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
7615 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
7616 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
7617 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
7618 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
7619 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
7620 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
7621 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
7623 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
7624 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
7625 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
7626 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
7627 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
7628 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
7629 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
7630 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
7631 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
7632 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
7634 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
7635 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
7636 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
7638 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
7639 Closes ticket 30806.
7640 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
7641 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
7644 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
7645 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
7646 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
7648 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
7649 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
7650 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
7653 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
7654 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
7655 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
7656 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
7657 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
7658 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
7659 bugfixes on earlier versions.
7661 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
7662 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
7663 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
7664 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
7666 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
7667 since 0.4.0.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
7669 o Directory authority changes:
7670 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
7673 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
7674 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to
7675 protocol warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID
7676 fields to help with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
7678 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding negotiation):
7679 - Bump the circuit padding protocol version to explicitly signify
7680 that the HS setup machine support is finalized in 0.4.1.x-stable.
7681 This also means that 0.4.1.x-alpha clients will not negotiate
7682 padding with 0.4.1.x-stable relays, and 0.4.1.x-stable clients
7683 will not negotiate padding with 0.4.1.x-alpha relays (or 0.4.0.x
7684 relays). Fixes bug 31356; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7686 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
7687 - Ignore non-padding cells on padding circuits. This addresses
7688 various warning messages from subsystems that were not expecting
7689 padding circuits. Fixes bug 30942; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7691 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
7692 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
7693 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
7694 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
7695 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7697 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
7698 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
7699 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
7700 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
7701 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
7702 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
7704 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
7705 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
7706 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
7709 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7710 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
7711 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7713 o Minor bugfixes (distribution):
7714 - Do not ship any temporary files found in the
7715 scripts/maint/practracker directory. Fixes bug 31311; bugfix
7718 o Testing (continuous integration):
7719 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
7720 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
7721 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
7725 Changes in version 0.4.1.4-rc - 2019-07-25
7726 Tor 0.4.1.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous versions of Tor, and
7727 updates to a new list of fallback directories. If no new bugs are
7728 found, the next release in the 0.4.1.x serious should be stable.
7730 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
7731 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
7732 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
7733 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
7734 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
7735 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7737 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7738 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
7739 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
7741 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
7742 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
7743 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
7744 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
7745 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
7747 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
7748 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
7749 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
7751 - Add two NULL checks in unreachable places to silence Coverity (CID
7752 144729 and 1447291) and better future-proof ourselves. Fixes bug
7753 31024; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7755 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
7756 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
7757 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
7758 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
7760 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7761 - Fix a conflict between the flag used for messaging-domain log
7762 messages, and the LD_NO_MOCK testing flag. Fixes bug 31080; bugfix
7765 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7766 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
7767 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
7770 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7771 - Remove some dead code from circpad_machine_remove_token() to fix
7772 some Coverity warnings (CID 1447298). Fixes bug 31027; bugfix
7776 Changes in version 0.4.1.3-alpha - 2019-06-25
7777 Tor 0.4.1.3-alpha resolves numerous bugs left over from the previous
7778 alpha, most of them from earlier release series.
7780 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability):
7781 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
7782 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
7783 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
7784 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
7787 o Minor features (geoip):
7788 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7789 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
7791 o Minor features (logging):
7792 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
7793 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
7794 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
7795 Closes ticket 30686.
7797 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
7798 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
7799 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7801 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
7802 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
7803 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7804 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
7805 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7806 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
7807 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7809 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
7810 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
7811 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
7812 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7814 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7815 - When running as a bridge with pluggable transports, always publish
7816 pluggable transport information in our extrainfo descriptor, even
7817 if ExtraInfoStatistics is 0. This information is needed by
7818 BridgeDB. Fixes bug 30956; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7821 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
7822 Closes ticket 30630.
7825 Changes in version 0.4.1.2-alpha - 2019-06-06
7826 Tor 0.4.1.2-alpha resolves numerous bugs--some of them from the
7827 previous alpha, and some much older. It also contains minor testing
7828 improvements, and an improvement to the security of our authenticated
7829 SENDME implementation.
7831 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
7832 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
7833 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
7834 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
7835 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
7836 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
7837 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
7838 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
7839 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
7840 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
7841 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7843 o Major bugfixes (flow control, SENDME):
7844 - Decrement the stream-level package window after packaging a cell.
7845 Previously, it was done inside a log_debug() call, meaning that if
7846 debug logs were not enabled, the decrement would never happen, and
7847 thus the window would be out of sync with the other end point.
7848 Fixes bug 30628; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7850 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
7851 - Properly clean up the introduction point map and associated state
7852 when circuits change purpose from onion service circuits to
7853 pathbias, measurement, or other circuit types. This may fix some
7854 instances of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
7857 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
7858 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
7859 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
7860 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
7861 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
7862 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
7865 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7866 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
7867 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
7870 o Minor features (maintenance):
7871 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
7872 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
7873 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
7875 o Minor features (testing):
7876 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
7877 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
7878 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
7879 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
7881 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
7882 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
7883 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
7885 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
7886 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
7887 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
7888 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
7890 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7891 - POSTDESCRIPTOR requests should work again. Previously, they were
7892 broken if a "purpose=" flag was specified. Fixes bug 30580; bugfix
7894 - Repair the HSFETCH command so that it works again. Previously, it
7895 expected a body when it shouldn't have. Fixes bug 30646; bugfix
7898 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
7899 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
7900 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
7903 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
7904 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
7905 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
7908 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
7909 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
7910 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
7911 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
7913 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
7914 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
7915 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
7916 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
7919 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7920 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
7921 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
7922 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
7923 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
7924 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
7927 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown, libevent, memory safety):
7928 - Avoid use-after-free bugs when shutting down, by making sure that
7929 we shut down libevent only after shutting down all of its users.
7930 We believe these are harmless in practice, since they only occur
7931 on the shutdown path, and do not involve any attacker-controlled
7932 data. Fixes bug 30629; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7934 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
7935 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
7936 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
7937 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
7940 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
7941 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
7942 Resolves issue 29702.
7945 Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-22
7946 This is the first alpha in the 0.4.1.x series. It introduces
7947 lightweight circuit padding to make some onion-service circuits harder
7948 to distinguish, includes a new "authenticated SENDME" feature to make
7949 certain denial-of-service attacks more difficult, and improves
7950 performance in several areas.
7952 o Major features (circuit padding):
7953 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
7954 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
7955 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
7956 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
7957 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
7958 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
7959 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
7960 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
7961 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
7963 o Major features (code organization):
7964 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
7965 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
7966 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
7967 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
7970 o Major features (controller protocol):
7971 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
7972 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
7973 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
7974 Closes ticket 30091.
7976 o Major features (flow control):
7977 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
7978 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
7979 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
7980 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
7981 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
7982 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
7983 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
7985 o Major features (performance):
7986 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
7987 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
7988 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
7990 o Major features (performance, RNG):
7991 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
7992 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
7993 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
7994 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
7995 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
7996 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
7997 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
7998 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
8000 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
8001 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
8002 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
8003 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
8004 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
8006 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
8007 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
8008 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
8009 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
8012 o Minor features (circuit padding):
8013 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
8015 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
8016 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
8017 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
8018 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
8019 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8020 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
8021 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
8023 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
8024 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
8025 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
8027 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8028 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
8029 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
8031 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
8033 o Minor features (controller):
8034 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
8035 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
8036 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8038 o Minor features (debugging):
8039 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
8040 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
8041 can use format strings to include information for trouble
8042 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
8044 o Minor features (defense in depth):
8045 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
8046 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
8047 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
8048 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
8049 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
8050 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
8051 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
8052 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
8053 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
8055 o Minor features (developer tools):
8056 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
8057 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
8058 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
8059 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
8060 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
8062 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
8063 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
8065 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
8066 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
8068 o Minor features (geoip):
8069 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8070 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
8072 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
8073 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
8074 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
8076 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
8077 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
8078 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
8079 addresses. Implements 26992.
8081 o Minor features (modularity):
8082 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
8083 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
8085 o Minor features (performance):
8086 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
8087 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
8088 Closes ticket 28837.
8090 o Minor features (testing):
8091 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
8092 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
8093 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
8094 Implements ticket 29732.
8095 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
8096 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
8098 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
8099 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
8101 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
8102 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
8103 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
8104 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
8105 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
8106 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8108 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
8109 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
8110 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
8111 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8113 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
8114 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
8115 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8116 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
8117 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
8118 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
8119 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8120 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
8121 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
8122 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8123 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
8124 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8125 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
8126 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
8127 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8128 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
8129 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
8130 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8132 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
8133 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
8134 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
8135 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8137 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
8138 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
8139 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
8140 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
8141 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
8143 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, ipv6):
8144 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
8145 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
8146 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8148 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
8149 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
8150 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8151 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
8152 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
8153 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
8155 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
8156 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
8158 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8159 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
8160 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
8161 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
8162 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
8163 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
8164 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
8167 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
8168 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
8169 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
8172 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8173 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
8174 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
8175 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8176 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
8177 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
8178 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
8179 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
8181 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
8182 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
8183 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8184 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
8185 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
8186 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
8187 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8189 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
8190 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
8191 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
8192 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
8193 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
8194 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8196 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
8197 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
8198 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
8199 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
8200 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8202 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
8203 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
8204 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8206 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
8207 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
8208 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
8211 o Minor bugfixes (python):
8212 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
8213 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
8214 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
8216 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8217 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
8218 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
8219 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
8220 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8222 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
8223 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
8224 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
8225 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
8226 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
8228 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8229 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
8230 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
8231 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8232 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
8233 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8234 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
8235 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8236 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
8237 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
8238 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
8239 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
8240 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8242 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
8243 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
8244 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
8245 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
8246 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8248 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8249 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
8250 port. Implements ticket 30007.
8251 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
8252 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
8253 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
8254 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
8255 string to directory connection with or without compression.
8256 Resolves issue 28816.
8257 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
8258 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
8259 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
8260 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
8261 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
8262 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
8263 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
8264 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
8265 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
8266 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
8267 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
8268 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
8269 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
8270 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
8271 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
8272 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
8273 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8274 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
8275 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8276 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
8277 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
8278 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
8279 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
8280 Closes ticket 29894.
8281 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
8282 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
8283 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
8284 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
8287 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
8288 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
8292 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
8293 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
8294 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
8295 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
8298 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
8299 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
8300 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
8301 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
8302 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
8303 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
8304 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
8305 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
8306 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
8307 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
8308 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
8311 o Testing (chutney):
8312 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
8313 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
8314 Closes ticket 27251.
8317 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
8318 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
8319 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
8320 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
8321 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
8322 long-term maintainability.
8324 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
8325 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
8326 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
8327 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
8329 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
8330 since 0.3.5.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
8332 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8333 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
8334 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
8335 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
8337 o Minor features (diagnostic):
8338 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
8339 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
8342 o Minor features (testing):
8343 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
8344 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
8347 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
8348 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
8349 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8351 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
8352 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
8353 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
8354 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8356 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8357 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
8358 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
8360 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
8361 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
8362 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8365 Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
8366 Tor 0.4.0.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series; it fixes
8367 several bugs from earlier versions, including some that had affected
8368 stability, and one that prevented relays from working with NSS.
8370 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
8371 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
8372 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
8373 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
8374 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
8375 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8377 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
8378 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
8379 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
8380 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
8381 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
8383 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
8384 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
8385 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
8388 o Minor features (circuit padding):
8389 - Stop warning about undefined behavior in the probability
8390 distribution tests. Float division by zero may technically be
8391 undefined behavior in C, but it's well defined in IEEE 754.
8392 Partial backport of 29298. Closes ticket 29527; bugfix
8395 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8396 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
8397 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
8400 o Minor features (dormant mode):
8401 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
8402 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
8403 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
8404 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
8405 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
8406 background. Closes ticket 29357.
8408 o Minor features (geoip):
8409 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8410 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
8412 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
8413 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
8414 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
8415 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
8417 o Minor bugfixes (security):
8418 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
8419 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
8420 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
8421 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
8422 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
8423 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
8424 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
8425 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
8427 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
8428 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
8429 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
8430 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
8432 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
8433 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
8434 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
8435 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
8436 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
8438 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
8439 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
8440 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
8442 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap reporting):
8443 - During bootstrap reporting, correctly distinguish pluggable
8444 transports from plain proxies. Fixes bug 28925; bugfix
8447 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
8448 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
8449 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
8452 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding testing):
8453 - Minor tweaks to avoid rare test failures related to timers and
8454 monotonic time. Fixes bug 29500; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8456 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
8457 - Actually include the bandwidth-file-digest line in directory
8458 authority votes. Fixes bug 29959; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8460 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8461 - On Windows, when errors cause us to reload a consensus from disk,
8462 tell the user that we are retrying at log level "notice".
8463 Previously we only logged this information at "info", which was
8464 confusing because the errors themselves were logged at "warning".
8465 Improves previous fix for 28614. Fixes bug 30004; bugfix
8468 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
8469 - Restore old behavior when it comes to discovering the path of a
8470 given Pluggable Transport executable file. A change in
8471 0.4.0.1-alpha had broken this behavior on paths containing a
8472 space. Fixes bug 29874; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8474 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8475 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
8476 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
8477 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8478 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
8479 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
8482 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
8483 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
8484 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
8485 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
8486 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
8487 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
8488 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
8489 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
8491 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8492 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
8493 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
8494 Resolves issue 28816.
8495 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
8496 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
8499 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
8500 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
8503 Changes in version 0.4.0.3-alpha - 2019-03-22
8504 Tor 0.4.0.3-alpha is the third in its series; it fixes several small
8505 bugs from earlier versions.
8507 o Minor features (address selection):
8508 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
8509 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
8510 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
8511 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
8512 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
8513 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
8514 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8516 o Minor features (geoip):
8517 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 4 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8518 Country database. Closes ticket 29666.
8520 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding):
8521 - Inspect the circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
8522 avoid sending padding when too much data is queued. Fixes bug
8523 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8525 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8526 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
8527 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
8528 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
8529 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8530 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
8531 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
8532 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
8533 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8534 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
8535 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8537 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
8538 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
8539 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
8540 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8542 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing):
8543 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
8544 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8546 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
8547 - Fix an assertion failure crash bug when a pluggable transport is
8548 terminated during the bootstrap phase. Fixes bug 29562; bugfix
8551 o Minor bugfixes (Rust, protover):
8552 - Add a missing "Padding" value to the Rust implementation of
8553 protover. Fixes bug 29631; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8555 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
8556 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
8557 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
8558 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
8559 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
8560 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
8561 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
8563 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
8564 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
8565 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
8568 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8569 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
8570 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
8571 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
8572 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
8573 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
8574 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
8575 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8576 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
8577 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8579 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
8580 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
8581 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
8582 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
8583 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
8584 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
8587 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
8588 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
8589 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
8592 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
8593 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
8594 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8596 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8597 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8598 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8599 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8600 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8601 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8602 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8603 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8605 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8606 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
8607 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
8608 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
8609 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8611 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8612 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
8613 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
8614 Patches from "Mangix".
8616 o Minor features (geoip):
8617 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8618 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8620 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8621 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
8624 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8625 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
8626 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
8627 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
8628 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
8629 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
8631 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8632 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
8633 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
8634 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
8637 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8638 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8639 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8640 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8642 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8643 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
8644 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
8647 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8648 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
8649 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
8650 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8652 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8653 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
8654 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
8655 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
8657 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8658 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
8659 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
8660 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
8661 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
8662 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
8664 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8665 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
8666 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
8667 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
8668 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8670 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8671 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
8672 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
8673 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
8674 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8676 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8677 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
8678 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
8680 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
8681 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
8682 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
8684 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8685 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8686 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8687 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8689 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8690 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
8691 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
8693 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8694 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
8695 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8696 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
8697 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
8700 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8701 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
8702 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
8703 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
8704 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8707 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
8708 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
8709 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
8710 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
8711 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8713 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8714 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8715 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8716 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8717 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8718 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8719 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8720 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8722 o Minor features (geoip):
8723 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8724 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8726 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8727 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8728 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8729 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8731 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8732 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8733 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8734 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8735 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8738 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
8739 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
8740 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
8741 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8743 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
8744 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
8745 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
8746 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
8748 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8749 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8750 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8751 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8752 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8753 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8754 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8755 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8757 o Minor features (geoip):
8758 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8759 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8761 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8762 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8763 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8764 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8766 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8767 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8768 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8769 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8770 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8773 Changes in version 0.4.0.2-alpha - 2019-02-21
8774 Tor 0.4.0.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series; it fixes several
8775 bugs from earlier versions, including several that had broken
8776 backward compatibility.
8778 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
8779 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
8780 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8782 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8783 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8784 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8785 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8786 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8787 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8788 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8789 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8791 o Major bugfixes (networking):
8792 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
8793 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
8794 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
8795 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8797 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
8798 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
8799 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
8800 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
8801 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
8802 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
8803 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8805 o Minor features (compilation):
8806 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
8807 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
8808 Patches from "Mangix".
8810 o Minor features (developer tooling):
8811 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
8812 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
8813 release. Closes ticket 27761.
8814 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
8815 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
8816 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
8819 o Minor features (directory authority):
8820 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
8821 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
8822 Closes ticket 26698.
8824 o Minor features (geoip):
8825 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8826 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8828 o Minor features (testing):
8829 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
8832 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
8833 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8834 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8835 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8837 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8838 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
8839 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8840 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
8841 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8843 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
8844 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
8845 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
8846 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
8848 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
8849 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
8850 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
8852 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8853 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
8854 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8855 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
8856 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
8857 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
8858 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8860 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
8861 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
8862 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
8863 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
8864 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8866 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8867 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
8868 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
8870 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
8871 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
8872 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
8874 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8875 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8876 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8877 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8879 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
8880 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
8881 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
8882 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
8883 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
8886 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
8887 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
8888 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8889 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
8890 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
8891 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
8892 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8893 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
8894 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8895 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
8896 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
8900 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
8901 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
8902 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
8905 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
8908 Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
8909 Tor 0.4.0.1-alpha is the first release in the new 0.4.0.x series. It
8910 introduces improved features for power and bandwidth conservation,
8911 more accurate reporting of bootstrap progress for user interfaces, and
8912 an experimental backend for an exciting new adaptive padding feature.
8913 There is also the usual assortment of bugfixes and minor features, all
8916 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
8917 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
8918 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
8919 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
8920 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
8921 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
8923 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
8924 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
8926 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
8927 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
8930 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
8931 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
8932 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
8933 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
8934 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
8935 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
8936 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
8937 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
8938 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
8941 o Major features (circuit padding):
8942 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
8943 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
8944 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
8945 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
8946 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
8947 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
8948 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
8949 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
8952 o Major features (refactoring):
8953 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
8954 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
8955 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
8956 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
8959 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
8960 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
8961 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
8962 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
8963 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
8966 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8967 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
8970 o Minor features (controller):
8971 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
8972 Implements ticket 28843.
8974 o Minor features (developer tooling):
8975 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
8976 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
8977 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
8979 o Minor features (directory authority):
8980 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
8981 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
8982 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
8983 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
8986 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
8987 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
8988 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
8989 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
8990 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
8991 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
8992 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
8994 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
8995 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
8996 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
8998 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
8999 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
9000 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
9001 Closes ticket 28518.
9003 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
9004 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
9005 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
9006 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
9008 o Minor features (IPv6):
9009 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
9010 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
9011 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
9012 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
9013 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
9014 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9015 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
9016 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
9017 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
9018 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9020 o Minor features (log messages):
9021 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
9022 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
9025 o Minor features (memory usage):
9026 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
9027 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
9028 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
9029 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
9030 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
9032 o Minor features (parsing):
9033 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
9034 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
9035 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
9037 o Minor features (performance):
9038 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
9039 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
9040 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
9041 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
9043 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
9044 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
9045 Closes ticket 28852.
9046 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
9047 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
9048 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
9049 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
9050 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
9051 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
9053 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
9054 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
9055 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
9056 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
9057 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
9059 o Minor features (process management):
9060 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
9061 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
9062 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
9063 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
9064 module. Closes ticket 28847.
9066 o Minor features (relay):
9067 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
9068 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
9069 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
9071 o Minor features (required protocols):
9072 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
9073 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
9074 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
9075 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
9076 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
9077 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
9078 297; closes ticket 27735.
9080 o Minor features (testing):
9081 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
9082 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
9084 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
9085 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
9086 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
9087 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
9088 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
9091 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9092 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
9093 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
9094 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
9096 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
9097 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
9098 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
9100 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
9101 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
9102 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
9103 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9105 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
9106 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
9107 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
9108 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
9109 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
9111 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
9112 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
9113 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
9114 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
9115 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
9116 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
9117 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9119 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
9120 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
9121 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
9122 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
9125 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9126 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
9127 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
9128 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
9129 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
9130 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
9132 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
9133 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
9134 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
9135 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9137 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
9138 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
9139 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
9140 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
9141 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
9142 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
9144 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
9145 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
9146 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
9147 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9149 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
9150 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
9151 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
9152 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
9153 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
9155 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
9156 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
9157 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
9158 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
9159 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9161 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
9162 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
9163 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
9164 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
9165 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9167 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9168 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
9169 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
9170 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
9172 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
9173 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
9174 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
9175 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
9176 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
9177 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
9178 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
9179 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
9183 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
9184 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
9185 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
9186 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
9188 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
9191 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
9192 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
9193 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
9194 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
9195 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
9196 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
9197 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
9200 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
9202 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
9203 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
9205 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
9206 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
9207 code from client and service into one function. Closes
9210 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
9211 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
9213 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
9214 Resolves ticket 28006.
9215 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
9216 Resolves ticket 28012.
9217 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
9218 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
9219 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
9220 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
9224 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
9225 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
9226 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
9227 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
9228 to this version, or to a later series.
9230 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
9231 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
9232 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
9233 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
9234 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
9235 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
9237 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9238 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
9239 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
9240 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
9241 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
9244 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9245 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
9246 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
9247 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9249 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9250 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
9251 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
9252 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
9253 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
9254 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
9255 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
9256 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
9258 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9259 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
9260 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
9261 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
9263 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9264 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
9265 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
9266 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
9267 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
9269 o Minor features (geoip):
9270 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
9271 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
9273 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9274 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
9275 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
9276 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
9277 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
9278 Closes ticket 28973.
9280 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9281 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
9282 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
9283 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
9285 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9286 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
9287 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
9290 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9291 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
9292 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
9294 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9295 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
9296 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
9297 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9299 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9300 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
9301 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
9302 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9304 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9305 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
9306 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
9307 were the same, the default setting (0) for
9308 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
9309 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
9312 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9313 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
9314 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
9317 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9318 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
9319 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
9320 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
9321 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9323 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9324 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
9325 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
9326 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
9327 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9329 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9330 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
9331 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
9332 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
9333 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
9334 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9336 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
9337 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
9338 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
9341 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9342 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
9343 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
9345 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9346 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
9347 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9349 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9350 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
9351 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
9354 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9355 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
9356 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
9357 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
9358 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
9359 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9360 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
9361 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9363 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9364 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
9365 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
9366 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9368 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9369 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
9370 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9371 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
9372 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
9373 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9374 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
9375 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
9376 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
9377 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9379 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9380 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
9381 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
9382 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
9383 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
9384 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9386 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9387 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
9388 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
9389 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
9390 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9392 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9393 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
9394 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9397 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
9398 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
9399 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
9400 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
9403 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
9404 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
9405 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
9408 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9409 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
9410 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
9411 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
9412 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
9415 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9416 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
9417 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
9418 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
9419 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
9420 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
9421 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
9423 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9424 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
9425 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
9428 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9429 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
9430 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
9431 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
9432 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
9435 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9436 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
9437 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
9438 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
9439 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
9441 o Minor features (geoip):
9442 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9443 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
9445 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9446 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
9447 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
9448 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
9449 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
9450 Closes ticket 28973.
9452 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9453 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
9454 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
9455 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9457 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9458 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
9459 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
9460 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
9461 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
9464 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9465 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
9466 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
9467 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
9469 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
9470 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
9471 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9473 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9474 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
9475 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
9476 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
9478 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9479 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
9480 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
9481 were the same, the default setting (0) for
9482 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
9483 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
9486 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9487 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
9488 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
9490 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9491 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
9492 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
9493 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
9494 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9496 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9497 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
9498 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
9499 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
9500 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
9501 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9503 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9504 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
9505 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
9506 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
9508 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9509 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
9510 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9513 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
9514 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
9515 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
9516 affecting directory caches.
9518 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
9519 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
9520 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
9521 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
9522 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
9523 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
9524 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
9525 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
9527 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
9528 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
9529 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
9530 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
9531 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
9532 so it will recognize them.
9534 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
9535 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
9536 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
9537 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
9538 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
9539 with the latest stable release.)
9541 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
9542 since 0.3.4.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
9544 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory):
9545 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
9546 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
9547 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
9548 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
9549 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
9550 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
9552 o Minor features (compilation):
9553 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
9554 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
9556 o Minor features (geoip):
9557 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
9558 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
9560 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
9561 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
9562 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
9563 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
9564 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
9565 Closes ticket 28973.
9567 o Minor features (performance):
9568 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
9569 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
9570 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
9571 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
9572 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
9573 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
9574 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
9575 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
9576 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
9577 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
9579 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9580 - Fix compilation for Android by adding a missing header to
9581 freespace.c. Fixes bug 28974; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9583 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9584 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
9585 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
9586 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
9587 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
9589 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9590 - Make sure that test_rebind.py actually obeys its timeout, even
9591 when it receives a large number of log messages. Fixes bug 28883;
9592 bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
9593 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
9594 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
9595 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9597 o Minor bugfixes (windows services):
9598 - Make Tor start correctly as an NT service again: previously it was
9599 broken by refactoring. Fixes bug 28612; bugfix on 0.3.5.3-alpha.
9601 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9602 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
9603 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
9607 Changes in version 0.3.5.6-rc - 2018-12-18
9608 Tor 0.3.5.6-rc fixes numerous small bugs in earlier versions of Tor.
9609 It is the first release candidate in the 0.3.5.x series; if no further
9610 huge bugs are found, our next release may be the stable 0.3.5.x.
9612 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
9613 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
9614 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
9617 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
9618 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
9619 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
9620 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
9621 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
9623 o Minor features (geoip):
9624 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9625 Country database. Closes ticket 28744.
9627 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9628 - Add missing dependency on libgdi32.dll for tor-print-ed-signing-
9629 cert.exe on Windows. Fixes bug 28485; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9631 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
9632 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
9633 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
9634 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
9636 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9637 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
9638 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
9639 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
9640 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
9641 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9643 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, boostrap):
9644 - Add missing resets of bootstrap tracking state when shutting down
9645 (regression caused by ticket 27169). Fixes bug 28524; bugfix
9648 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9649 - Use a separate DataDirectory for the test_rebind script.
9650 Previously, this script would run using the default DataDirectory,
9651 and sometimes fail. Fixes bug 28562; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9652 Patch from Taylor R Campbell.
9653 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
9654 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9656 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
9657 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
9658 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
9659 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
9660 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
9661 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
9662 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
9663 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
9665 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
9666 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
9667 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
9668 reported by Keifer Bly.
9671 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
9672 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
9674 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
9675 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
9676 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
9677 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
9678 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
9679 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
9680 Closes ticket 19566.
9682 o Documentation (onion services):
9683 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
9684 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
9685 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
9686 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
9687 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
9688 process. Closes ticket 28275.
9691 Changes in version 0.3.5.5-alpha - 2018-11-16
9692 Tor 0.3.5.5-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier releases,
9693 including several that we hope to backport to older release series in
9696 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
9697 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
9698 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
9699 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
9700 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
9703 o Minor features (geoip):
9704 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9705 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
9707 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9708 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
9709 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
9710 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9712 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
9713 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
9714 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
9715 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
9716 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
9719 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
9720 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
9721 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
9722 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
9724 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
9725 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
9726 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9728 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9729 - Make Doxygen work again after the code movement in the 0.3.5
9730 source tree. Fixes bug 28435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9732 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9733 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
9734 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
9737 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9738 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
9739 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
9742 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
9743 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
9744 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
9746 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9747 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
9748 introduction circuits on an NACK. This lets the client decide
9749 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
9750 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
9751 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
9752 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
9753 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
9754 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
9755 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9758 Changes in version 0.3.5.4-alpha - 2018-11-08
9759 Tor 0.3.5.4-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier versions and
9760 improves our continuous integration support. It continues our attempts
9761 to stabilize this alpha branch and build it into a foundation for an
9762 acceptable long-term-support release.
9764 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
9765 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
9766 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
9767 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
9768 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
9769 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9771 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
9772 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
9773 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
9774 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
9775 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9777 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9778 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
9780 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
9781 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
9783 o Minor features (Windows, continuous integration):
9784 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
9785 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
9787 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, also in 0.3.4.9):
9788 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
9789 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
9792 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9793 - Fix a pair of missing headers on OpenBSD. Fixes bug 28303; bugfix
9794 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
9796 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenSolaris):
9797 - Fix compilation on OpenSolaris and its descendants by adding a
9798 missing include to compat_pthreads.c. Fixes bug 27963; bugfix
9801 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
9802 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
9803 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
9806 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
9807 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
9808 with a different relay, instead of a BUG() warning with a
9809 backtrace. Fixes bug 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9811 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9812 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
9813 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
9814 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
9817 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
9818 - Fix an assert() when adding a client authorization for the first
9819 time and then sending a HUP signal to the service. Before that,
9820 Tor would stop abruptly. Fixes bug 27995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9822 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9823 - Unless we have explicitly set HiddenServiceVersion, detect the
9824 onion service version and then look for invalid options.
9825 Previously, we did the reverse, but that broke existing configs
9826 which were pointed to a v2 service and had options like
9827 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient set. Fixes bug 28127; bugfix on
9828 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9830 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9831 - Make the OPE code (which is used for v3 onion services) run
9832 correctly on big-endian platforms. Fixes bug 28115; bugfix
9835 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
9836 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
9839 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
9840 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
9841 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
9842 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
9843 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
9845 o Minor bugfixes (rust, also in 0.3.4.9):
9846 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
9847 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9848 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
9849 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
9850 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9852 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
9853 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
9854 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
9855 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
9856 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9858 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9859 - Avoid hangs and race conditions in test_rebind.py. Fixes bug
9860 27968; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9862 o Minor bugfixes (testing, also in 0.3.4.9):
9863 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
9864 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
9865 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
9866 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9868 o Documentation (onion service manpage):
9869 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
9870 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
9873 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
9874 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
9875 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
9876 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
9877 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
9879 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9880 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
9881 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9883 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9884 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
9885 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
9886 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
9887 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9889 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9890 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
9891 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
9892 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
9893 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
9896 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9897 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
9898 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
9899 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9901 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9902 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
9903 Implements ticket 27252.
9904 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
9905 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
9906 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
9907 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
9908 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
9909 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
9910 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
9912 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9913 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
9914 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
9915 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
9917 o Minor features (geoip):
9918 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9919 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
9921 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9922 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
9923 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
9924 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
9925 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9927 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
9928 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
9929 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9930 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
9931 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9934 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9935 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
9936 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
9939 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9940 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
9941 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
9942 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
9943 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
9945 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9946 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
9947 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
9949 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9950 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
9951 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9953 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9954 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
9955 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
9956 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9958 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9959 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
9960 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9962 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9963 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
9964 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
9967 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9968 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
9969 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9971 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9972 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
9973 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
9976 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9977 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
9978 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
9979 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
9980 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9982 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9983 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
9984 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
9985 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
9986 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
9987 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9989 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9990 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
9991 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
9994 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9995 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
9996 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
9997 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
9998 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
9999 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10000 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
10001 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10003 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
10004 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
10005 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
10006 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10008 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
10009 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
10010 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
10011 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
10012 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
10014 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
10015 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
10016 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10017 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
10018 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
10019 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10021 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
10022 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
10023 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
10024 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
10025 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
10026 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
10028 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
10029 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
10030 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
10031 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
10034 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
10035 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
10036 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
10037 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
10038 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10041 Changes in version 0.3.5.3-alpha - 2018-10-17
10042 Tor 0.3.5.3-alpha fixes several bugs, mostly from previous 0.3.5.x
10043 versions. One important fix for relays addresses a problem with rate-
10044 limiting code from back in 0.3.4.x: If the fix works out, we'll be
10045 backporting it soon. This release is still an alpha, but we hope it's
10046 getting closer and closer to stability.
10048 o Major features (onion services):
10049 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
10050 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
10051 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
10052 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
10053 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
10055 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
10056 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
10057 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10059 o Major bugfixes (initialization, crash):
10060 - Fix an assertion crash that would stop Tor from starting up if it
10061 tried to activate a periodic event too early. Fixes bug 27861;
10062 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
10064 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap):
10065 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
10066 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
10067 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
10068 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10070 o Major bugfixes (relay):
10071 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
10072 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
10073 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
10074 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
10077 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10078 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
10079 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
10080 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
10081 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
10082 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
10085 o Minor features (geoip):
10086 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10087 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
10089 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
10090 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
10091 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
10094 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10095 - Compile the ed25519-donna code with a correct declaration of
10096 crypto_strongest_rand(). Previously, we built it with one type,
10097 but linked it against another in the unit tests, which caused
10098 compilation failures with LTO enabled. This could have caused
10099 other undefined behavior in the tests. Fixes bug 27728; bugfix
10102 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, netbsd):
10103 - Add a missing include back into procmon.c. Fixes bug 27990; bugfix
10106 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, appveyor):
10107 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
10108 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
10109 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
10110 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
10112 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
10113 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
10114 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
10115 were the same, the default setting (0) for
10116 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
10117 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
10120 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
10121 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
10122 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10124 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
10125 - In retry_listeners_ports(), make sure that we're removing a member
10126 of old_conns smartlist at most once. Fixes bug 27808; bugfix
10128 - Refrain from attempting socket rebinding when old and new
10129 listeners are in different address families. Fixes bug 27928;
10130 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
10132 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
10133 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
10134 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
10136 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
10137 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
10138 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
10139 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
10140 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
10141 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
10142 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
10143 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
10144 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10146 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
10147 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
10148 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
10151 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10152 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
10153 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
10154 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
10156 - In test_rebind.py, check if the Python version is in the supported
10157 range. Fixes bug 27675; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
10159 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10160 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
10161 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
10162 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
10163 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
10164 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
10165 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
10166 Closes ticket 27814.
10167 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
10168 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
10169 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
10170 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
10171 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
10172 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
10175 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
10176 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
10177 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
10178 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
10181 Changes in version 0.3.5.2-alpha - 2018-09-21
10182 Tor 0.3.5.2-alpha fixes several bugs in 0.3.5.1-alpha, including one
10183 that made Tor think it had run out of sockets. Anybody running a relay
10184 or an onion service on 0.3.5.1-alpha should upgrade.
10186 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
10187 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
10188 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
10189 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
10190 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
10191 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
10193 o Major bugfixes (socket accounting):
10194 - In our socket accounting code, count a socket as closed even when
10195 it is closed indirectly by the TLS layer. Previously, we would
10196 count these sockets as still in use, and incorrectly believe that
10197 we had run out of sockets. Fixes bug 27795; bugfix
10200 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
10201 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
10202 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
10203 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
10204 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
10206 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
10207 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
10208 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10209 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
10210 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
10213 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
10214 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
10215 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
10216 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
10217 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10219 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
10220 - Fix an unlikely memory leak when trying to read a private key from
10221 a ridiculously large file. Fixes bug 27764; bugfix on
10222 0.3.5.1-alpha. This is CID 1439488.
10224 o Minor bugfixes (NSS):
10225 - Correctly detect failure to open a dummy TCP socket when stealing
10226 ownership of an fd from the NSS layer. Fixes bug 27782; bugfix
10229 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
10230 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
10231 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
10232 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10234 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10235 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
10236 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
10237 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10239 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10240 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
10241 Closes ticket 27799.
10244 Changes in version 0.3.5.1-alpha - 2018-09-18
10245 Tor 0.3.5.1-alpha is the first release of the 0.3.5.x series. It adds
10246 client authorization for modern (v3) onion services, improves
10247 bootstrap reporting, begins reorganizing Tor's codebase, adds optional
10248 support for NSS in place of OpenSSL, and much more.
10250 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
10251 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
10252 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
10253 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
10254 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
10255 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
10257 o Major features (relay, UI change):
10258 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
10259 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
10260 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
10261 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
10262 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10263 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
10264 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
10266 o Major features (bootstrap):
10267 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
10268 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
10269 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
10270 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
10272 o Major features (new code layout):
10273 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
10274 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
10275 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
10276 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
10277 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
10278 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
10279 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
10281 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
10282 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
10283 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
10285 o Major features (onion services v3):
10286 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
10287 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
10288 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
10289 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
10290 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
10291 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
10292 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
10293 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
10294 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
10295 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
10296 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
10297 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
10298 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
10300 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
10301 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
10302 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
10303 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
10304 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
10305 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
10306 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
10308 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
10309 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
10310 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
10311 (if present), and restart Tor.
10313 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
10314 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
10315 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
10316 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
10319 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
10320 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
10321 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
10322 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10324 o Minor features (admin tools):
10325 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
10326 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
10329 o Minor features (build):
10330 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
10331 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
10332 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
10333 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
10335 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
10336 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
10337 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
10338 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
10339 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
10341 o Minor features (code layout):
10342 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
10343 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
10344 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
10345 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
10348 o Minor features (compilation):
10349 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
10350 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
10351 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
10352 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
10355 o Minor features (config):
10356 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
10359 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10360 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
10361 Implements ticket 27252.
10362 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
10363 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
10364 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
10365 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
10366 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
10367 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
10368 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
10369 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
10370 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
10372 o Minor features (controller):
10373 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
10374 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
10375 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
10376 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
10377 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
10378 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
10379 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
10380 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
10382 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
10383 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
10384 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
10385 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
10387 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
10388 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
10389 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
10390 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10392 o Minor features (development):
10393 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
10394 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
10396 o Minor features (directory authority):
10397 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
10398 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
10399 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
10400 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
10402 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
10403 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
10406 o Minor features (embedding API):
10407 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
10408 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
10409 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
10410 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
10411 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
10412 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
10415 o Minor features (geoip):
10416 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10417 Country database. Closes ticket 27631.
10419 o Minor features (memory management):
10420 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
10421 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
10424 o Minor features (memory usage):
10425 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
10426 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
10427 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
10429 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
10430 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
10431 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
10433 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
10434 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
10435 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
10436 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
10438 o Minor features (testing):
10439 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
10440 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
10442 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
10443 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
10444 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
10446 o Minor features (UI):
10447 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
10448 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
10449 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
10450 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
10451 Closes ticket 26703.
10453 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
10454 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
10455 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
10456 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10458 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
10459 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
10460 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
10461 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10462 - Use time_t for all values in
10463 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
10464 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
10465 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10467 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
10468 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
10469 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
10470 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
10471 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
10474 o Minor bugfixes (client, reachableaddresses):
10475 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
10476 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
10477 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
10478 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
10479 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10481 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
10482 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
10483 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
10484 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10486 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
10487 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
10488 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
10489 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
10490 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
10492 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
10493 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
10494 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10496 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10497 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
10498 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
10499 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
10500 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
10503 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
10504 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
10505 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10507 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
10508 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
10509 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
10512 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
10513 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
10514 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
10515 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
10516 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10518 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10519 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
10520 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
10521 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
10522 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
10523 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
10524 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
10526 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
10527 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
10528 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
10529 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
10530 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10532 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
10533 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
10534 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10536 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
10537 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
10538 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
10539 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
10542 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
10543 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
10544 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
10547 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
10548 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
10549 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
10550 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
10551 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
10553 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
10554 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
10555 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
10556 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
10558 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
10559 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
10560 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
10561 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
10563 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
10564 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
10565 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
10566 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
10567 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
10568 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10569 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10570 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
10571 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
10572 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10574 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protover):
10575 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
10576 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
10577 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
10578 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
10579 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10580 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
10581 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10583 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10584 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
10585 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10586 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
10587 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
10588 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
10589 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
10590 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
10591 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
10592 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
10593 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10594 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
10595 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
10597 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10598 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
10599 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
10600 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
10601 directory within the top-level src directory.
10602 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
10603 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
10604 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
10605 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
10606 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
10607 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
10608 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
10609 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
10610 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
10611 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
10612 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
10613 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
10614 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
10615 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
10616 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
10617 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
10618 Closes ticket 21349.
10619 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
10620 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
10621 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
10622 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
10623 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
10624 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
10625 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
10627 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
10628 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
10629 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
10632 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
10633 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
10634 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
10635 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
10636 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
10638 o Removed features:
10639 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
10640 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
10641 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
10642 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
10643 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
10644 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
10645 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
10646 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
10647 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
10648 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
10649 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
10650 Closes ticket 26367.
10653 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
10654 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
10656 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10657 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
10658 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
10659 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
10661 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10662 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10664 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
10665 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
10666 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
10667 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
10669 o Minor features (geoip):
10670 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10671 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
10673 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10674 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
10675 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
10676 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
10678 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10679 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
10680 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
10681 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
10682 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
10683 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
10684 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
10685 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
10688 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10689 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
10690 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
10691 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10693 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10694 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
10695 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
10696 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
10698 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10699 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
10700 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
10701 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10703 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10704 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
10705 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10706 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
10707 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10709 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10710 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
10711 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
10714 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10715 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
10716 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
10717 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
10718 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
10720 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10721 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
10722 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
10725 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10726 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
10727 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
10728 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10730 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10731 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
10732 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10734 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10735 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
10736 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
10739 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10740 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
10741 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
10742 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
10743 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10745 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10746 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
10747 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10750 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
10751 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
10753 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10754 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
10755 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
10756 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
10758 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10759 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10761 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
10762 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
10763 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
10764 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
10766 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10767 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10770 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10771 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
10772 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
10773 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
10775 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10776 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
10777 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
10778 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
10780 o Minor features (geoip):
10781 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10782 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
10784 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10785 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
10786 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
10787 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
10788 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
10789 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
10790 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
10792 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10793 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
10794 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
10795 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
10796 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
10797 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
10798 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
10799 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
10802 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10803 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
10804 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
10805 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10807 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10808 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
10809 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
10810 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
10812 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10813 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10814 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
10815 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
10816 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10818 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10819 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
10820 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10821 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
10822 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10824 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10825 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
10826 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
10829 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10830 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
10831 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
10832 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
10833 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
10835 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10836 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
10837 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
10840 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10841 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
10842 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
10845 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10846 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
10847 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
10850 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10851 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
10853 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
10854 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
10855 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
10856 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10858 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10859 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
10860 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
10861 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10863 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10864 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
10865 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10867 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10868 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
10869 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
10870 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
10871 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10872 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
10873 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
10876 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
10877 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
10878 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
10879 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
10880 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10882 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10883 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
10884 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
10885 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
10886 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10888 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10889 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
10890 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10893 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
10894 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
10896 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10897 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
10898 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
10899 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
10901 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10902 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
10903 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
10904 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
10906 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10907 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
10908 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10910 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
10911 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
10912 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
10913 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
10915 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10916 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10919 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10920 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
10921 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
10922 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
10924 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10925 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
10926 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
10927 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
10929 o Minor features (geoip):
10930 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10931 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
10933 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10934 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
10935 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
10936 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
10937 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
10938 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
10939 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
10941 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10942 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
10943 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
10944 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
10945 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
10946 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
10947 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
10948 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
10951 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10952 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
10953 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
10954 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10956 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10957 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
10958 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
10959 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
10961 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10962 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10963 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
10964 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
10965 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10967 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10968 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
10969 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10970 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
10971 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10973 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10974 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
10975 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
10978 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10979 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
10980 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
10981 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10983 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10984 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
10985 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
10986 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
10987 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
10989 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10990 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
10991 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
10994 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10995 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
10996 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
10999 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
11000 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
11001 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
11004 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11005 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
11006 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
11007 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11009 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11010 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
11011 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
11014 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11015 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
11017 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
11018 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
11019 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
11020 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
11021 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
11022 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
11023 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
11025 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
11026 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
11027 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
11028 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
11029 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
11031 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11032 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
11033 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
11034 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11036 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11037 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
11038 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11040 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
11041 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
11042 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
11043 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
11044 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11045 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
11046 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
11049 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11050 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
11051 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
11052 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
11053 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11055 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11056 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
11057 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
11058 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
11059 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
11061 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11062 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
11063 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11066 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
11067 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
11068 compilation and portability fixes.
11070 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
11071 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
11072 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
11073 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
11074 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
11075 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
11076 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
11077 our anti-denial-of-service code.
11079 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.7-rc. For a complete list of changes
11080 since 0.3.3.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
11082 o Minor features (compatibility):
11083 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
11084 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
11085 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
11087 o Minor features (continuous integration):
11088 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
11089 Implements ticket 27449.
11090 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
11091 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
11094 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11095 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
11096 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
11097 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
11098 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
11099 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
11100 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
11101 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
11104 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
11105 - Disable gcc hardening in Appveyor Windows 64-bit builds. As of
11106 August 29 2018, Appveyor images come with gcc 8.2.0 by default.
11107 Executables compiled for 64-bit Windows with this version of gcc
11108 crash when Tor's --enable-gcc-hardening flag is set. Fixes bug
11109 27460; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11110 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
11111 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
11112 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
11113 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
11115 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11116 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
11117 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
11120 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
11121 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
11122 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
11123 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
11124 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11125 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
11126 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
11129 Changes in version 0.3.4.7-rc - 2018-08-24
11130 Tor 0.3.4.7-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
11131 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
11132 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
11133 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
11135 o Minor features (bug workaround):
11136 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
11137 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
11138 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
11140 o Minor features (continuous integration):
11141 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
11142 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
11144 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
11145 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
11146 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
11147 Implements ticket 27275.
11148 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
11149 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
11151 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
11152 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
11155 o Minor features (directory authorities):
11156 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
11157 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
11158 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
11160 o Minor features (geoip):
11161 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11162 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
11164 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
11165 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
11166 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
11167 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11169 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
11170 - Improve Appveyor CI IRC logging. Generate correct branches and
11171 URLs for pull requests and tags. Use unambiguous short commits.
11172 Fixes bug 26979; bugfix on master.
11173 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
11174 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
11175 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
11176 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11178 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
11179 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
11180 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
11181 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11183 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11184 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
11185 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
11186 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
11187 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
11189 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11190 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
11191 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
11194 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11195 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
11196 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
11199 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
11200 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
11202 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
11203 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
11204 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
11205 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
11206 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
11207 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
11208 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
11210 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
11211 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
11212 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
11213 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
11214 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
11216 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
11217 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
11218 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
11219 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
11220 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11222 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
11223 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
11224 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
11225 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
11226 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11228 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
11229 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
11230 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11233 Changes in version 0.3.4.6-rc - 2018-08-06
11234 Tor 0.3.4.6-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
11235 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
11236 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
11237 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
11239 o Major bugfixes (event scheduler):
11240 - When we enable a periodic event, schedule it in the event loop
11241 rather than running it immediately. Previously, we would re-run
11242 periodic events immediately in the middle of (for example)
11243 changing our options, with unpredictable effects. Fixes bug 27003;
11244 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11246 o Minor features (compilation):
11247 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
11248 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
11250 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
11251 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
11252 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
11253 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
11254 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
11255 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
11257 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
11258 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
11259 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
11260 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
11262 o Minor features (controller):
11263 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
11264 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
11265 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
11267 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
11268 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
11269 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
11272 o Minor features (geoip):
11273 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11274 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11276 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
11277 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
11279 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11280 - Update build system so that tor builds again with --disable-unittests
11281 after recent refactoring. Fixes bug 26789; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
11282 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11283 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11284 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11285 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11287 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11288 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
11289 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11290 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
11291 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
11292 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
11294 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
11295 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
11296 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
11299 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
11300 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11301 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11303 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11304 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
11305 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
11308 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11309 - Avoid a compilation error in test_bwmgt.c on Solaris 10. Fixes bug
11310 26994; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11311 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
11312 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
11313 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11315 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
11316 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
11317 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
11318 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11320 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11321 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
11322 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11324 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
11325 - When running the ntor_ref.py and hs_ntor_ref.py tests, make sure
11326 only to pass strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python
11327 subprocess module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this.
11328 Fixes bug 26535; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha (for ntor_ref.py) and
11329 0.3.1.1-alpha (for hs_ntor_ref.py).
11331 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
11332 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
11333 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
11334 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
11335 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
11338 Changes in version 0.3.4.5-rc - 2018-07-13
11339 Tor 0.3.4.5-rc moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
11340 bridge relays should upgrade.
11342 o Directory authority changes:
11343 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11344 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
11345 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
11348 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
11349 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
11350 bridge relays should upgrade.
11352 o Directory authority changes:
11353 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11354 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
11355 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
11358 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
11359 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
11360 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
11363 o Directory authority changes:
11364 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11365 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
11366 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
11368 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
11369 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
11370 Closes ticket 26343.
11372 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11373 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
11374 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
11375 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
11376 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
11378 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11379 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
11380 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
11382 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11383 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
11384 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
11385 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
11387 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
11388 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
11389 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
11391 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11392 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
11393 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
11394 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
11395 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
11396 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
11398 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11399 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
11400 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
11401 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
11403 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11404 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
11405 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
11408 o Minor features (geoip):
11409 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11410 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11412 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11413 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
11414 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
11415 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
11416 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11418 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11419 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
11420 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11422 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11423 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
11424 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
11425 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
11426 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11427 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
11428 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
11429 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
11432 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11433 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
11434 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
11435 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
11436 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
11437 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11439 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
11440 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
11441 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
11442 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
11443 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
11445 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11446 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11447 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11448 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11449 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11451 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11452 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
11453 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
11456 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11457 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
11458 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11460 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11461 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
11462 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
11463 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
11465 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11466 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
11467 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11468 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
11469 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
11470 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
11471 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11473 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11474 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
11475 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
11476 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
11479 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11480 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
11481 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11483 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11484 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
11485 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11487 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11488 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
11489 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
11490 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
11493 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11494 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
11495 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
11496 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
11498 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11499 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11500 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11502 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
11503 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
11504 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
11507 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
11508 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
11509 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
11512 o Directory authority changes:
11513 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11514 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
11515 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
11517 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
11518 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
11519 Closes ticket 26343.
11521 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11522 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
11523 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
11524 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
11525 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
11527 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11528 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
11529 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
11530 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
11532 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11533 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
11534 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
11535 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
11536 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
11537 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
11539 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11540 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
11541 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
11544 o Minor features (geoip):
11545 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11546 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11548 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11549 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
11550 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
11551 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
11552 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11554 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11555 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
11556 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11558 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11559 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
11560 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
11561 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
11564 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11565 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
11566 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
11567 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
11568 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
11569 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11571 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11572 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11573 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11574 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11575 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11577 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11578 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
11579 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
11582 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11583 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
11584 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11586 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11587 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
11588 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
11589 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
11591 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11592 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11593 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11595 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
11596 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
11597 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
11600 Changes in version 0.3.4.4-rc - 2018-07-09
11601 Tor 0.3.4.4-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
11602 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
11603 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
11604 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
11606 o Minor features (compilation):
11607 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
11608 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
11611 o Minor features (geoip):
11612 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11613 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11615 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
11616 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
11618 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11619 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11620 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11621 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11622 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11624 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
11625 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
11626 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11627 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
11628 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
11629 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
11631 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
11632 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
11633 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
11636 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
11637 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11638 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11640 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
11641 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
11642 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
11643 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
11644 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11645 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
11646 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
11647 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
11651 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
11652 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
11653 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
11655 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11656 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
11657 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
11658 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
11660 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11661 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
11662 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
11665 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11666 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
11667 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
11670 o Minor features (geoip):
11671 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11672 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11674 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11675 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
11676 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
11677 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
11679 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11680 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
11681 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
11682 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
11683 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
11686 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11687 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11688 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11689 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11690 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11692 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11693 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
11694 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
11695 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
11697 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11698 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11699 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11701 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11702 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
11703 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
11704 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
11707 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11708 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
11709 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
11710 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11712 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11713 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
11714 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
11715 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
11716 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11717 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
11718 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
11719 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
11723 Changes in version 0.3.4.3-alpha - 2018-06-26
11724 Tor 0.3.4.3-alpha fixes several bugs in earlier versions, including
11725 one that was causing stability issues on directory authorities.
11727 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
11728 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
11729 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
11730 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
11732 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing):
11733 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
11734 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
11737 o Minor feature (directory authorities):
11738 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
11739 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
11740 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
11742 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic):
11743 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
11744 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
11745 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
11747 o Minor features (unit tests):
11748 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
11749 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
11750 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
11753 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11754 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
11755 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
11756 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11757 - When linking the libtor_testing.a library, only include the
11758 dirauth object files once. Previously, they were getting added
11759 twice. Fixes bug 26402; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11760 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
11761 Closes ticket 26245.
11763 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11764 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
11765 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
11766 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
11767 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
11768 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11770 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11771 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
11772 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
11773 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
11776 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11777 - Fix compilation of the doctests in the Rust crypto crate. Fixes
11778 bug 26415; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11779 - Instead of trying to read the geoip configuration files from
11780 within the unit tests, instead create our own ersatz files with
11781 just enough geoip data in the format we expect. Trying to read
11782 from the source directory created problems on Windows with mingw,
11783 where the build system's paths are not the same as the platform's
11784 paths. Fixes bug 25787; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11785 - Refrain from trying to get an item from an empty smartlist in
11786 test_bridges_clear_bridge_list. Set DEBUG_SMARTLIST in unit tests
11787 to catch improper smartlist usage. Furthermore, enable
11788 DEBUG_SMARTLIST globally when build is configured with fragile
11789 hardening. Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11792 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
11793 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
11794 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
11796 o Directory authority changes:
11797 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
11798 Closes ticket 26343.
11800 o Minor features (geoip):
11801 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11802 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
11804 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11805 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
11806 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
11807 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
11808 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
11809 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11811 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11812 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
11813 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11815 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11816 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
11817 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
11818 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
11819 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11821 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11822 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
11823 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11825 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11826 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
11827 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
11828 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
11829 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
11830 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
11833 Changes in version 0.3.4.2-alpha - 2018-06-12
11834 Tor 0.3.4.2-alpha fixes several minor bugs in the previous alpha
11835 release, and forward-ports an authority-only security fix from 0.3.3.6.
11837 o Directory authority changes:
11838 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
11839 Closes ticket 26343.
11841 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service, also in 0.3.3.6):
11842 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
11843 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
11844 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
11845 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
11847 o Minor features (continuous integration):
11848 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
11849 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
11850 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
11852 o Minor features (geoip):
11853 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11854 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
11856 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl):
11857 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
11858 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
11859 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
11860 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
11861 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11863 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11864 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
11865 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11866 - Fix compilation when using OpenSSL 1.1.0 with the "no-deprecated"
11867 flag enabled. Fixes bug 26156; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11868 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
11869 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
11870 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11872 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
11873 - Do not count 0-length RELAY_COMMAND_DATA cells as valid data in
11874 CIRC_BW events. Previously, such cells were counted entirely in
11875 the OVERHEAD field. Now they are not. Fixes bug 26259; bugfix
11878 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11879 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
11880 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
11881 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
11882 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11884 o Minor bugfixes (hardening):
11885 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
11886 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11888 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11889 - Fix a bug that blocked the creation of ephemeral v3 onion
11890 services. Fixes bug 25939; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11892 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
11893 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
11894 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
11895 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
11899 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
11900 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
11901 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11903 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
11904 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
11905 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
11906 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
11907 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
11908 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
11910 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.5-rc. For a list of all changes
11911 since 0.3.2.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
11913 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11914 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
11915 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
11916 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
11917 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
11919 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
11920 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
11921 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
11922 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
11923 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
11925 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11926 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
11927 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
11928 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11930 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11931 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
11932 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
11933 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
11935 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11936 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
11937 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
11939 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11940 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
11941 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
11944 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11945 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
11946 Closes ticket 26006.
11948 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11949 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
11950 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
11951 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
11952 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
11953 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
11955 o Minor features (geoip):
11956 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
11957 database. Closes ticket 26104.
11959 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11960 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
11961 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
11964 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11965 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
11966 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
11967 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
11968 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11970 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11971 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
11972 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
11973 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
11974 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
11977 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11978 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
11979 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11981 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11982 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
11983 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11984 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
11985 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
11986 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
11987 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11989 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11990 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
11991 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11993 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11994 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
11995 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
11998 Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-17
11999 Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It
12000 includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's binary size and idle CPU
12001 usage on mobile, along with prep work for new bandwidth scanners,
12002 improvements to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous
12003 other small features and bugfixes.
12005 o New system requirements:
12006 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
12007 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
12008 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
12009 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
12011 o Major feature (directory authority, modularization):
12012 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
12013 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
12014 To disable the module, the configure option
12015 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
12016 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
12018 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
12019 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
12020 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
12021 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
12022 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
12023 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
12024 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
12025 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
12026 events are now disabled with Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
12027 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
12028 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes ticket
12030 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
12031 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
12032 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
12033 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
12034 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
12035 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
12036 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
12037 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
12038 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
12039 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
12040 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
12041 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
12042 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
12043 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
12044 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
12045 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
12046 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
12047 Tor's uptime (26009).
12049 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security):
12050 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
12051 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
12052 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
12053 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
12055 o Major bugfixes (crash):
12056 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
12057 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
12058 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
12060 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
12061 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
12062 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
12063 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
12065 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
12066 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
12067 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
12069 o Major bugfixes (protover, voting):
12070 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
12071 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
12072 avoiding a potential (but small impact) DoS attack where specially
12073 crafted protocol strings would expand to several potential
12074 megabytes in memory. In the process, several portions of code were
12075 revised to be methods on new, custom types, rather than functions
12076 taking interchangeable types, thus increasing type safety of the
12077 module. Custom error types and handling were added as well, in
12078 order to facilitate better error dismissal/handling in outside
12079 crates and avoid mistakenly passing an internal error string to C
12080 over the FFI boundary. Many tests were added, and some previous
12081 differences between the C and Rust implementations have been
12082 remedied. Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12084 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service):
12085 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
12086 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
12089 o Minor features (accounting):
12090 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
12091 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
12092 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
12093 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
12095 o Minor features (code quality):
12096 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
12097 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
12098 Closes ticket 25024.
12100 o Minor features (compatibility):
12101 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
12102 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
12103 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
12104 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
12105 Closes ticket 26006.
12107 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
12108 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
12109 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
12110 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
12111 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
12112 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
12114 o Minor features (configuration):
12115 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
12116 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
12117 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
12118 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
12119 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
12121 o Minor features (continuous integration):
12122 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
12123 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
12124 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
12125 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
12126 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
12128 o Minor features (control port):
12129 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
12130 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
12131 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
12132 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12133 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
12134 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
12135 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
12136 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
12137 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
12138 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
12140 o Minor features (directory authority):
12141 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
12142 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
12143 Closes ticket 23909.
12145 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
12146 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
12147 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
12148 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
12150 o Minor features (entry guards):
12151 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
12152 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
12154 o Minor features (geoip):
12155 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
12156 database. Closes ticket 26104.
12158 o Minor features (performance):
12159 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
12160 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
12161 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
12162 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
12164 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
12165 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
12167 o Minor features (testing):
12168 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
12169 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
12170 more deterministic.
12171 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
12172 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
12173 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
12174 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
12175 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
12176 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
12178 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
12179 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
12180 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
12181 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
12182 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
12184 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
12185 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
12186 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
12187 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
12188 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
12189 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
12191 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
12192 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
12193 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
12194 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
12196 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection):
12197 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
12198 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
12199 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
12200 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
12203 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12204 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
12205 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
12208 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
12209 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
12210 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12211 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
12212 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
12214 o Minor bugfixes (control interface):
12215 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
12216 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
12217 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
12218 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12220 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12221 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
12222 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
12223 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
12224 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12226 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client):
12227 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the cell
12228 immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for close, but
12229 continue processing the cell as if the connection were open. Fixes bug
12230 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12232 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
12233 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
12234 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12235 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
12236 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
12237 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
12240 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12241 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
12242 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
12243 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
12244 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
12247 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
12248 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
12249 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
12250 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
12251 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
12252 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
12253 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
12255 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12256 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
12257 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12259 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
12260 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
12261 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12262 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
12263 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
12264 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
12265 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12267 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
12268 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
12269 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
12270 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
12271 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
12272 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
12274 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12275 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
12276 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
12279 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
12280 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
12281 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
12282 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12284 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
12285 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
12286 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
12287 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
12288 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
12289 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
12290 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
12292 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
12293 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
12294 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12296 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process):
12297 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
12298 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
12299 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12301 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12302 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
12303 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
12304 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
12305 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
12306 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12307 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
12308 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
12310 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
12311 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
12312 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12313 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
12314 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
12315 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
12316 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
12318 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
12319 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
12320 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
12321 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
12322 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
12324 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
12325 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
12326 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
12329 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
12330 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
12331 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
12332 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
12333 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
12334 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12336 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12337 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
12338 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
12339 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
12340 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
12341 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
12342 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
12343 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
12345 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
12346 confusing we renamed some functions and
12347 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
12348 router_should_check_reachability() and
12349 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
12350 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
12351 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
12352 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
12353 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
12355 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
12356 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
12358 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
12359 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
12360 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12361 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
12362 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
12363 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
12364 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
12365 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
12366 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
12367 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
12368 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
12369 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
12370 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
12371 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
12372 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
12373 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12374 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
12375 Closes ticket 25766.
12376 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
12377 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
12378 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
12379 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
12380 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
12381 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
12382 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
12383 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
12384 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
12385 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
12386 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12387 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
12388 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
12389 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
12391 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
12392 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
12393 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
12394 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
12395 before. Closes ticket 26016.
12396 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
12397 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
12398 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
12399 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
12401 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
12402 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
12403 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
12404 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12406 o Deprecated features:
12407 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
12408 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
12409 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
12410 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
12411 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
12412 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
12415 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
12416 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
12418 o Removed features:
12419 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
12420 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
12421 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
12422 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
12423 24378 and proposal 290.
12424 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
12425 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
12426 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
12427 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
12428 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
12429 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
12430 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
12431 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
12432 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
12433 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
12434 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
12435 their local router. Closes 25409.
12436 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
12437 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
12438 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
12439 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
12440 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
12441 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
12442 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
12443 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
12444 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
12445 Closes ticket 25268.
12448 Changes in version 0.3.3.5-rc - 2018-04-15
12449 Tor 0.3.3.5-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
12450 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
12452 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.3 series. If we find no
12453 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.3 release will
12454 be nearly identical to this one.
12456 o Major bugfixes (security, protover, voting):
12457 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
12458 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
12459 avoiding a potential memory-based DoS attack where specially
12460 crafted protocol strings would expand to fill available memory.
12461 Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12463 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
12464 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
12465 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
12466 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
12467 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
12468 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
12469 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
12471 o Minor feature (continuous integration):
12472 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
12473 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
12475 o Minor features (config options):
12476 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
12477 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
12478 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
12481 o Minor features (geoip):
12482 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12483 Country database. Closes ticket 25718.
12485 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12486 - When using a listed relay as a bridge, and also using
12487 microdescriptors, and considering that relay as a non-bridge in a
12488 circuit, treat its microdescriptor as a valid source of
12489 information about that relay. This change should prevent a non-
12490 fatal assertion error. Fixes bug 25691; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
12492 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12493 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
12494 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
12495 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12497 o Minor bugfixes (distribution, compilation, rust):
12498 - Build correctly when the rust dependencies submodule is loaded,
12499 but the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES environment variable is not set.
12500 Fixes bug 25679; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12501 - Actually include all of our Rust source in our source
12502 distributions. (Previously, a few of the files were accidentally
12503 omitted.) Fixes bug 25732; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
12505 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12506 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
12507 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
12508 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
12509 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
12510 - Revert a misformatting issue in the ExitPolicy documentation.
12511 Fixes bug 25582; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12513 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
12514 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
12515 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
12516 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
12517 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
12519 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
12520 - Re-instate counting the client HSDir fetch circuits against the
12521 MaxClientCircuitsPending rate limit. Fixes bug 24989; bugfix
12523 - Remove underscores from the _HSLayer{2,3}Nodes options. This
12524 expert-user configuration can now be enabled as HSLayer{2,3}Nodes.
12525 Fixes bug 25581; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha
12527 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12528 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
12529 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
12531 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
12532 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
12533 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
12537 Changes in version 0.3.3.4-alpha - 2018-03-29
12538 Tor 0.3.3.4-alpha includes various bugfixes for issues found during
12539 the alpha testing of earlier releases in its series. We are
12540 approaching a stable 0.3.3.4-alpha release: more testing is welcome!
12542 o New system requirements:
12543 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
12544 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
12546 o Major bugfixes (relay, connection):
12547 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
12548 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
12549 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
12550 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12552 o Minor features (geoip):
12553 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 8 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12554 Country database. Closes ticket 25469.
12556 o Minor features (log messages):
12557 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
12558 information about memory usage from the different compression
12559 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
12561 o Minor features (sandbox):
12562 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
12563 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
12564 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
12566 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
12567 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
12568 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
12569 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
12571 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
12572 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
12573 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
12575 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12576 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
12577 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
12578 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
12580 o Minor bugfixes (controller, reliability):
12581 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
12582 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
12583 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12585 o Major bugfixes (networking):
12586 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
12587 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
12588 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
12590 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
12591 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
12592 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
12594 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
12595 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service
12596 descriptor rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's
12597 valid-after time. Instead, log a warning message with extra
12598 information, so we can better hunt down the cause of this
12599 assertion. Fixes bug 25306; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12601 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12602 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
12603 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
12604 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
12606 - Rust crates are now automatically detected and tested. Previously,
12607 some crates were not tested by `make test-rust` due to a static
12608 string in the `src/test/test_rust.sh` script specifying which
12609 crates to test. Fixes bug 25560; bugfix on 0.3.3.3-alpha.
12611 o Minor bugfixes (testing, benchmarks):
12612 - Fix a crash when running benchmark tests on win32 systems. The
12613 crash was due to a mutex that wasn't initialized before logging
12614 and options were initialized. Fixes bug 25479; bugfix
12617 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, ipv6):
12618 - Avoid a bug warning that could occur when trying to connect to a
12619 relay over IPv6. This warning would occur on a Tor instance that
12620 downloads router descriptors, but prefers to use microdescriptors.
12621 Fixes bug 25213; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12623 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12624 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
12625 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
12629 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
12631 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
12632 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
12635 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
12636 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
12639 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
12640 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
12642 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
12643 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
12645 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
12648 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
12649 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
12650 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
12652 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
12653 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
12654 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
12655 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
12658 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12659 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
12660 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
12661 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
12664 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12665 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
12666 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
12667 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
12668 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
12669 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
12670 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
12671 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
12672 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
12673 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
12674 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
12675 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
12676 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
12678 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12679 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
12680 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
12682 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12683 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
12684 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
12685 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
12686 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
12687 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
12688 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12690 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12691 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
12692 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12694 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12695 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
12696 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
12697 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
12698 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
12699 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
12700 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12702 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12703 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
12704 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
12705 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
12707 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12708 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
12709 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
12710 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
12712 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12713 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
12714 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
12715 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
12716 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
12717 Closes ticket 24978.
12719 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
12720 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
12721 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
12722 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
12723 information. Closes ticket 24801.
12724 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
12725 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
12726 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
12727 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
12729 o Minor features (geoip):
12730 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12733 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12734 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
12735 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
12736 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
12737 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
12739 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12740 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
12741 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
12742 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
12743 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
12745 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
12746 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
12747 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
12748 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
12749 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
12752 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12753 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
12754 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
12755 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
12756 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
12757 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
12758 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
12759 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
12760 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
12761 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
12762 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
12765 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
12766 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
12767 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
12769 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12770 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
12771 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
12774 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12775 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
12776 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
12777 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
12778 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
12779 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
12780 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
12782 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12783 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
12784 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12785 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
12786 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
12787 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
12788 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
12789 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
12790 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
12793 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
12794 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
12795 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
12796 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
12797 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
12798 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12800 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12801 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
12802 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
12803 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12805 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
12806 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
12807 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
12808 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
12809 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
12812 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12813 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
12814 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
12815 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
12816 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
12817 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
12819 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12820 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
12821 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
12822 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
12823 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
12824 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
12825 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12826 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
12827 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
12828 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
12829 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
12830 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12832 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12833 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
12834 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
12835 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12837 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12838 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
12839 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
12840 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12842 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
12843 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
12844 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
12845 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
12848 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
12849 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
12850 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
12851 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
12852 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
12854 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12855 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
12857 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
12858 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12860 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12861 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
12862 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
12865 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
12866 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12867 later Tor releases.
12869 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
12870 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
12872 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
12873 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
12875 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
12878 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
12879 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
12880 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
12882 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12883 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
12884 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
12885 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
12888 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
12889 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
12890 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
12891 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
12892 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
12893 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
12894 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
12895 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
12896 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
12897 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
12898 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
12899 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
12900 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
12902 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
12903 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
12904 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
12905 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
12906 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
12907 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
12908 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
12909 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
12910 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
12912 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
12913 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
12914 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
12915 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
12916 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
12917 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
12918 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12920 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
12921 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
12922 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
12923 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
12925 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
12926 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
12927 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
12928 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
12929 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
12930 Closes ticket 24978.
12932 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
12933 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
12934 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
12935 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
12937 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
12938 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
12939 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
12940 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
12941 information. Closes ticket 24801.
12942 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
12943 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
12944 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
12945 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
12947 o Minor features (geoip):
12948 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12951 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12952 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
12953 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
12955 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
12956 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
12957 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
12958 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
12959 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
12961 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
12962 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
12963 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
12964 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
12965 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
12967 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
12968 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
12969 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
12970 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
12971 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
12974 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12975 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
12976 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
12978 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12979 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
12980 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
12983 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12984 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
12985 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
12986 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
12987 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
12988 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
12989 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
12991 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
12992 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
12993 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
12994 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
12995 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
12998 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
12999 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
13000 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
13001 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
13002 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
13003 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
13005 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
13006 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
13007 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
13008 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13010 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
13011 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
13012 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
13013 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
13014 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
13015 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
13016 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
13017 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
13018 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
13019 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
13020 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
13021 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
13023 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
13024 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
13025 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
13026 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
13029 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13030 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
13031 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
13032 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
13033 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
13035 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13036 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
13038 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
13039 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13042 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
13043 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
13044 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
13047 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
13048 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
13050 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
13051 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
13052 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
13053 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
13054 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
13055 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
13058 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
13059 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
13061 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
13064 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
13065 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
13066 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
13067 the DoS mitigations.)
13069 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13070 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
13071 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
13072 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
13075 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13076 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
13077 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
13078 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13080 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13081 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
13082 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
13083 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
13084 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
13085 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
13086 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
13087 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
13088 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
13089 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
13090 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
13091 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
13092 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
13094 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13095 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
13096 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
13097 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
13098 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
13099 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
13100 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
13101 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
13102 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
13103 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
13104 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13106 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13107 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
13108 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13110 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13111 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
13112 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
13113 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
13114 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
13115 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
13116 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13118 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13119 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
13120 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
13121 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13123 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13124 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
13125 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
13126 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
13128 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13129 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
13130 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
13131 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
13132 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
13133 Closes ticket 24978.
13135 o Minor features (geoip):
13136 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
13139 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13140 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
13141 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
13144 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13145 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
13146 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
13147 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
13148 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
13150 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13151 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
13152 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
13153 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
13154 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
13155 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
13156 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
13158 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13159 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
13160 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
13161 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
13162 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
13164 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13165 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
13166 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
13167 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13169 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13170 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
13171 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
13172 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
13173 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13175 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13176 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
13177 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
13178 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13180 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13181 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
13182 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
13183 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13185 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13186 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
13187 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
13188 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13190 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13191 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
13193 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
13194 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13196 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13197 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
13198 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
13200 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13201 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
13202 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
13203 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
13204 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13206 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13207 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
13208 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
13210 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
13211 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
13212 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
13216 Changes in version 0.3.3.3-alpha - 2018-03-03
13217 Tor 0.3.3.3-alpha is the third alpha release for the 0.3.3.x series.
13218 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
13219 against directory authorities tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
13221 Additionally, with this release, we are upgrading the severity of a
13222 bug fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha. Bug 24700, which was fixed in
13223 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely triggered in order to crash relays with
13224 a use-after-free pattern. As such, we are now tracking that bug as
13225 TROVE-2018-002 and CVE-2018-0491. This bug affected versions
13226 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as 0.3.3.1-alpha.
13228 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
13231 Relays running 0.3.2.x should upgrade to one of the versions released
13232 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
13233 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
13234 the DoS mitigations.)
13236 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority):
13237 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
13238 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
13239 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
13242 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
13243 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
13244 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
13245 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
13246 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
13247 Closes ticket 24978.
13249 o Minor features (logging):
13250 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
13251 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
13253 o Minor features (testing):
13254 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
13257 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service):
13258 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
13259 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
13260 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
13261 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
13262 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
13263 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
13265 o Minor bugfixes (DoS mitigation):
13266 - Add extra safety checks when refilling the circuit creation bucket
13267 to ensure we never set a value above the allowed maximum burst.
13268 Fixes bug 25202; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
13269 - When a new consensus arrives, don't update our DoS-mitigation
13270 parameters if we aren't a public relay. Fixes bug 25223; bugfix
13273 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
13274 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
13275 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old option
13276 still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix on 0.2.6.3.
13278 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
13279 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
13280 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
13281 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
13282 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
13285 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
13286 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
13288 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
13289 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13291 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, rust):
13292 - Resolve a denial-of-service issue caused by an infinite loop in
13293 the rust protover code. Fixes bug 25250, bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
13294 Also tracked as TROVE-2018-003.
13296 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13297 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
13298 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
13301 Changes in version 0.3.3.2-alpha - 2018-02-10
13302 Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is the second alpha in the 0.3.3.x series. It
13303 introduces a mechanism to handle the high loads that many relay
13304 operators have been reporting recently. It also fixes several bugs in
13305 older releases. If this new code proves reliable, we plan to backport
13306 it to older supported release series.
13308 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
13309 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
13310 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
13311 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
13312 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
13313 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
13314 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
13315 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
13316 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
13317 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
13318 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
13319 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
13320 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
13322 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
13323 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
13324 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
13325 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
13326 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
13327 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
13328 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
13329 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13331 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions):
13332 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
13333 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13335 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus):
13336 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
13337 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
13338 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13340 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
13341 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
13342 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
13343 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
13345 o Minor features (directory authority):
13346 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
13347 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
13349 o Minor features (geoip):
13350 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
13353 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
13354 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
13355 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic for
13358 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
13359 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
13360 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
13361 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
13362 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
13364 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
13365 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
13366 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
13367 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
13368 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
13370 o Minor bugfixes (all versions of Tor):
13371 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
13372 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
13373 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
13375 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
13376 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
13377 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
13378 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
13379 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
13381 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13382 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
13383 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
13384 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
13386 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13387 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
13388 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
13389 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13390 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
13391 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
13392 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
13394 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
13395 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
13396 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
13397 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
13398 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13399 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
13400 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
13401 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
13403 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
13404 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
13405 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
13406 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
13407 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
13408 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
13409 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13411 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
13412 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
13413 would call the Rust implementation of
13414 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
13415 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
13416 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
13417 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
13418 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13420 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
13421 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
13422 list, which would waste CPU cycles. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix
13425 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
13426 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
13427 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
13428 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
13429 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
13430 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
13432 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
13433 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
13434 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
13435 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
13436 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13438 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13439 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
13441 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
13442 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
13443 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
13446 o Documentation (man page):
13447 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
13448 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
13452 Changes in version 0.3.3.1-alpha - 2018-01-25
13453 Tor 0.3.3.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.3.x series. It adds
13454 several new features to Tor, including several improvements to
13455 bootstrapping, and support for an experimental "vanguards" feature to
13456 resist guard discovery attacks. This series also includes better
13457 support for applications that need to embed Tor or manage v3
13460 o Major features (embedding):
13461 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
13462 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
13463 Closes ticket 23684.
13464 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
13465 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
13466 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
13467 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
13468 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
13469 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
13471 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
13472 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
13473 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
13474 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements ticket 23826.
13475 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
13476 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts, they
13477 are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor clients
13478 on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor clients that
13479 have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements ticket 23828.
13480 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
13481 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
13484 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
13485 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
13486 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
13487 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
13488 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
13489 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
13490 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
13492 o Major features (onion services):
13493 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
13494 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
13495 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
13496 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
13497 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
13500 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
13501 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
13502 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
13503 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
13504 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
13505 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
13506 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
13507 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
13509 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
13510 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
13511 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
13512 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
13513 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
13515 o Major features (v3 onion services, ipv6):
13516 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
13517 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
13518 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
13519 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
13520 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
13521 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
13523 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
13524 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
13525 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
13526 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
13527 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
13528 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
13529 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
13530 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
13531 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
13532 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
13533 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13535 o Major bugfixes (relays):
13536 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
13537 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
13538 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
13539 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
13540 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
13541 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13543 o Minor feature (IPv6):
13544 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
13545 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
13546 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
13547 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
13548 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors.
13549 Implements ticket 23827.
13551 o Minor features (cleanup):
13552 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
13553 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
13555 o Minor features (defensive programming):
13556 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
13557 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
13558 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
13559 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
13560 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
13561 once. Part of ticket 24337.
13562 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
13563 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
13564 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
13566 o Minor features (embedding):
13567 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
13568 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
13569 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
13570 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
13571 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
13572 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
13573 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
13574 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
13575 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
13576 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside
13577 a separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
13578 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
13579 Closes ticket 23848.
13580 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
13581 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
13582 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
13584 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
13585 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
13586 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
13587 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
13588 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
13589 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
13590 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
13591 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
13594 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
13595 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
13596 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
13597 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
13598 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
13599 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
13600 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
13602 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
13603 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
13604 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
13605 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
13606 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
13607 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
13608 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
13609 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
13610 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
13611 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
13612 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
13613 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
13615 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
13616 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
13617 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
13619 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
13620 Implements ticket 24791.
13622 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
13623 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
13624 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
13625 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
13626 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
13627 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
13629 o Minor features (heartbeat):
13630 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
13631 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
13634 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
13635 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
13636 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
13637 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
13638 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
13640 o Minor features (log messages):
13641 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
13642 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
13643 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
13644 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
13646 o Minor features (logging, android):
13647 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
13650 o Minor features (performance):
13651 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
13652 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
13653 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
13654 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
13656 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
13657 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
13658 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
13659 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
13660 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
13661 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
13662 Implements ticket 24374.
13664 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
13665 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
13666 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
13667 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
13668 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
13670 o Minor features (performance, windows):
13671 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
13672 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
13673 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
13676 o Major features (relay):
13677 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
13678 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
13679 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
13680 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
13681 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
13683 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
13684 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
13685 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
13686 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
13687 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
13688 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
13689 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
13690 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
13691 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
13693 o Minor bugfix (network IPv6 test):
13694 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
13695 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
13696 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
13698 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
13699 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
13700 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
13701 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
13702 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
13703 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
13704 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13705 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
13706 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
13707 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
13708 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
13709 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
13712 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
13713 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
13714 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
13715 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
13718 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
13719 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
13720 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
13723 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
13724 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
13725 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
13727 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
13728 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13729 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
13730 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
13731 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
13733 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
13734 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
13735 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
13736 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13738 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
13739 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
13740 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13741 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
13742 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
13743 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
13745 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13746 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
13747 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
13748 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
13750 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
13751 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
13752 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
13753 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
13754 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13755 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
13758 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
13759 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
13760 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
13761 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13763 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening):
13764 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
13765 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
13766 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13768 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
13769 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
13770 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
13771 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
13772 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
13773 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
13774 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
13775 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
13776 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
13777 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
13778 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
13779 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
13781 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13782 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
13783 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13784 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
13785 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
13787 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13788 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
13790 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
13791 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
13792 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
13793 "aruna1234" and teor.
13794 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
13795 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
13796 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
13797 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
13799 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
13800 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
13801 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
13802 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
13803 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
13804 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
13805 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
13806 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
13807 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
13808 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
13810 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
13811 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
13814 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
13815 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
13817 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
13818 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
13819 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
13820 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
13821 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
13822 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
13825 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
13826 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
13827 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
13828 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
13829 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
13831 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
13832 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
13833 adding very little except for unit test.
13835 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
13836 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
13837 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
13838 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
13840 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
13841 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
13842 const. Implements ticket 24489.
13845 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
13846 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
13848 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
13849 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
13850 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
13851 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
13852 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
13853 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
13855 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
13856 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
13857 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
13858 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
13859 with the 0.2.9 series.
13861 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.2.8-rc. For a list of all
13862 changes since 0.3.1, see the ReleaseNotes file.
13864 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
13865 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
13866 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
13867 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
13868 information. Closes ticket 24801.
13869 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
13870 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
13871 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
13872 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
13874 o Minor features (geoip):
13875 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
13878 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
13879 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
13880 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
13881 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
13882 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
13885 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13886 - Resolve a few shadowed-variable warnings in the onion service
13887 code. Fixes bug 24634; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13889 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
13890 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
13891 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
13892 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
13896 Changes in version 0.3.2.8-rc - 2017-12-21
13897 Tor 0.3.2.8-rc fixes a pair of bugs in the KIST and KISTLite
13898 schedulers that had led servers under heavy load to overload their
13899 outgoing connections. All relay operators running earlier 0.3.2.x
13900 versions should upgrade. This version also includes a mitigation for
13901 over-full DESTROY queues leading to out-of-memory conditions: if it
13902 works, we will soon backport it to earlier release series.
13904 This is the second release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find
13905 no new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2 release
13906 will be nearly identical to this.
13908 o Major bugfixes (KIST, scheduler):
13909 - The KIST scheduler did not correctly account for data already
13910 enqueued in each connection's send socket buffer, particularly in
13911 cases when the TCP/IP congestion window was reduced between
13912 scheduler calls. This situation lead to excessive per-connection
13913 buffering in the kernel, and a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug
13914 24665; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13916 o Minor features (geoip):
13917 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13920 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
13921 - Bump hsdir_spread_store parameter from 3 to 4 in order to increase
13922 the probability of reaching a service for a client missing
13923 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 24425; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13925 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
13926 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
13927 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
13928 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
13929 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
13932 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
13933 - Use a sane write limit for KISTLite when writing onto a connection
13934 buffer instead of using INT_MAX and shoving as much as it can.
13935 Because the OOM handler cleans up circuit queues, we are better
13936 off at keeping them in that queue instead of the connection's
13937 buffer. Fixes bug 24671; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13940 Changes in version 0.3.2.7-rc - 2017-12-14
13941 Tor 0.3.2.7-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
13942 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
13944 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find no
13945 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2. release will
13946 be nearly identical to this.
13948 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
13949 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
13950 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
13951 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
13952 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
13953 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
13954 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
13956 o Minor features (logging):
13957 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
13960 o Minor features (portability):
13961 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
13962 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
13965 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
13966 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
13967 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
13968 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
13969 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13970 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
13971 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
13972 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
13973 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13974 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
13975 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
13976 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
13977 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13979 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13980 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
13981 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
13983 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13984 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
13985 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
13986 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
13987 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
13988 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
13989 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
13992 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
13993 - Fix a race where an onion service would launch a new intro circuit
13994 after closing an old one, but fail to register it before freeing
13995 the previously closed circuit. This bug was making the service
13996 unable to find the established intro circuit and thus not upload
13997 its descriptor, thus making a service unavailable for up to 24
13998 hours. Fixes bug 23603; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14000 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
14001 - Properly set the scheduler state of an unopened channel in the
14002 KIST scheduler main loop. This prevents a harmless but annoying
14003 log warning. Fixes bug 24502; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
14004 - Avoid a possible integer overflow when computing the available
14005 space on the TCP buffer of a channel. This had no security
14006 implications; but could make KIST allow too many cells on a
14007 saturated connection. Fixes bug 24590; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14008 - Downgrade to "info" a harmless warning about the monotonic time
14009 moving backwards: This can happen on platform not supporting
14010 monotonic time. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14013 Changes in version 0.3.2.6-alpha - 2017-12-01
14014 This version of Tor is the latest in the 0.3.2 alpha series. It
14015 includes fixes for several important security issues. All Tor users
14016 should upgrade to this release, or to one of the other releases coming
14019 o Major bugfixes (security):
14020 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14021 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14022 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14023 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14024 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14025 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14026 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14027 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
14028 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
14029 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
14031 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14032 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14033 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14034 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14035 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14036 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14037 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14040 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
14041 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
14042 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
14043 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
14044 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
14046 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
14047 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
14048 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
14049 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
14050 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
14051 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14052 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
14053 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
14054 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14056 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
14057 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
14058 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
14059 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
14061 o Minor features (directory authority):
14062 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
14065 o Minor bugfixes (client):
14066 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
14067 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
14068 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14071 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
14072 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
14073 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
14074 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
14076 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14077 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14078 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14079 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14080 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14081 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14082 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14083 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14084 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
14085 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
14086 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
14088 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14089 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14090 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14091 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14092 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14093 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14094 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14097 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14098 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
14099 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
14100 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
14101 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
14103 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14104 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
14105 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
14106 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
14107 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
14108 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14109 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
14110 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
14111 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14113 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14114 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
14115 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
14116 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
14117 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
14118 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
14121 o Minor features (bridge):
14122 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
14123 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
14124 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
14125 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
14128 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14129 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
14132 o Minor features (geoip):
14133 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14136 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14137 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
14138 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
14139 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
14140 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14142 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14143 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
14144 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14146 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14147 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
14148 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
14149 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
14150 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
14151 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14153 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
14154 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
14155 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
14158 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14159 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
14160 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
14161 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
14162 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14165 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
14166 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
14167 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
14168 to another of the releases coming out today.
14170 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
14171 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
14172 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14174 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14175 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14176 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14177 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14178 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14179 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14180 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14181 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14182 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
14183 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
14184 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
14186 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14187 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14188 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14189 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14190 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14191 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14192 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14195 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14196 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
14197 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
14198 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
14199 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
14201 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14202 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
14203 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
14204 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
14205 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
14206 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14207 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
14208 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
14209 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14211 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14212 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
14213 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
14214 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
14215 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
14216 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
14219 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14220 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
14221 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
14222 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
14223 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
14224 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
14226 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
14227 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
14228 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
14229 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
14230 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
14233 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14234 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
14237 o Minor features (geoip):
14238 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14241 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14242 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
14243 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
14244 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
14245 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14247 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14248 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
14249 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14251 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14252 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
14253 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
14254 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
14255 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
14256 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14258 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14259 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
14260 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
14261 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
14262 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14264 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14265 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
14266 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
14269 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
14270 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
14271 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
14272 to another of the releases coming out today.
14274 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14275 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
14276 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
14277 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
14278 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
14279 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
14282 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14283 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14284 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14285 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14286 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14287 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14288 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14289 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14290 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
14291 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
14292 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
14294 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14295 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14296 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14297 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14298 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14299 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14300 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14303 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14304 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
14305 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
14306 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
14307 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
14309 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14310 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
14311 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
14312 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
14313 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
14314 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14316 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
14317 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
14318 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
14319 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
14320 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
14323 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14324 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
14327 o Minor features (geoip):
14328 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14331 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14332 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
14333 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
14334 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
14335 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
14336 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
14338 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14339 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
14340 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
14341 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
14342 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14344 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14345 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
14346 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14348 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14349 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
14350 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
14351 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
14352 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
14353 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14355 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14356 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
14357 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
14358 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
14359 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14361 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14362 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
14363 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
14366 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
14367 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
14368 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
14369 to another of the releases coming out today.
14371 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
14372 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
14373 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14375 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14376 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14377 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14378 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14379 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14380 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14381 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14382 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14383 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14384 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14385 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14386 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14387 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14388 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14389 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14392 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14393 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
14394 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
14395 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
14396 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
14398 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14399 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
14400 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
14401 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
14402 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
14405 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
14406 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
14407 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
14408 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
14409 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
14412 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14413 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
14416 o Minor features (geoip):
14417 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14420 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14421 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
14422 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
14425 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
14426 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
14427 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
14428 to another of the releases coming out today.
14430 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
14431 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
14432 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14434 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14435 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14436 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14437 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14438 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14439 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14440 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14441 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14442 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14443 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14444 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14445 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14446 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14447 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14448 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14451 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14452 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
14453 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
14454 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
14455 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
14456 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14458 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
14459 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
14460 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
14461 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
14462 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
14465 o Minor features (geoip):
14466 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14470 Changes in version 0.3.2.5-alpha - 2017-11-22
14471 Tor 0.3.2.5-alpha is the fifth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
14472 fixes several stability and reliability bugs, including a fix for
14473 intermittent bootstrapping failures that some people have been seeing
14474 since the 0.3.0.x series.
14476 Please test this alpha out -- many of these fixes will soon be
14477 backported to stable Tor versions if no additional bugs are found
14480 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
14481 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
14482 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
14483 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
14484 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
14485 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
14486 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
14487 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
14488 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
14489 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
14490 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
14493 o Minor features (directory authority):
14494 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
14495 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
14496 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
14497 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
14499 o Minor features (geoip):
14500 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14503 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14504 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
14505 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
14507 o Minor features (logging):
14508 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
14509 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
14511 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
14512 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
14514 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14515 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
14516 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
14517 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
14518 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
14519 - When detecting OpenSSL on Windows from our configure script, make
14520 sure to try linking with the ws2_32 library. Fixes bug 23783;
14521 bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
14523 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14524 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
14525 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
14528 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
14529 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
14530 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
14531 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14533 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
14534 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
14535 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14536 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
14537 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
14538 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
14539 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
14540 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
14541 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
14544 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14545 - Only log once if we notice that KIST support is gone. Fixes bug
14546 24158; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14547 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
14548 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
14549 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
14550 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14552 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
14553 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
14554 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
14555 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
14556 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
14557 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
14559 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
14560 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
14561 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
14562 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
14563 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14564 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
14565 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
14567 - Silence a warning about failed v3 onion descriptor uploads that
14568 can happen naturally under certain edge cases. Fixes part of bug
14569 23662; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14571 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
14572 - Fix a memory leak in one of the bridge-distribution test cases.
14573 Fixes bug 24345; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
14574 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
14575 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
14576 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
14577 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
14578 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
14581 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
14582 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
14583 section. Closes ticket 24254.
14586 Changes in version 0.3.2.4-alpha - 2017-11-08
14587 Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha is the fourth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series.
14588 It fixes several stability and reliability bugs, especially including
14589 a major reliability issue that has been plaguing fast exit relays in
14592 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
14593 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
14594 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
14595 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
14596 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
14597 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
14600 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, channel):
14601 - Stop processing scheduled channels if they closed while flushing
14602 cells. This can happen if the write on the connection fails
14603 leading to the channel being closed while in the scheduler loop.
14604 Fixes bug 23751; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14606 o Minor features (logging, scheduler):
14607 - Introduce a SCHED_BUG() function to log extra information about
14608 the scheduler state if we ever catch a bug in the scheduler.
14609 Closes ticket 23753.
14611 o Minor features (removed deprecations):
14612 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
14613 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
14614 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
14615 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
14617 o Minor features (testing):
14618 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
14619 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
14621 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
14622 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
14623 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
14624 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
14625 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14627 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, v3 single onion services):
14628 - Remove buggy code for IPv6-only v3 single onion services, and
14629 reject attempts to configure them. This release supports IPv4,
14630 dual-stack, and IPv6-only v3 onion services; and IPv4 and dual-
14631 stack v3 single onion services. Fixes bug 23820; bugfix
14634 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
14635 - Give only a protocol warning when the ed25519 key is not
14636 consistent between the descriptor and microdescriptor of a relay.
14637 This can happen, for instance, if the relay has been flagged
14638 NoEdConsensus. Fixes bug 24025; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14640 o Minor bugfixes (manpage, onion service):
14641 - Document that the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option is
14642 0-10 for v2 services and 0-20 for v3 services. Fixes bug 24115;
14643 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14645 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
14646 - Fix a minor memory leak at exit in the KIST scheduler. This bug
14647 should have no user-visible impact. Fixes bug 23774; bugfix
14649 - Fix a memory leak when decrypting a badly formatted v3 onion
14650 service descriptor. Fixes bug 24150; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14651 Found by OSS-Fuzz; this is OSS-Fuzz issue 3994.
14653 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
14654 - Cache some needed onion service client information instead of
14655 constantly computing it over and over again. Fixes bug 23623;
14656 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14657 - Properly retry HSv3 descriptor fetches when missing required
14658 directory information. Fixes bug 23762; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14660 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
14661 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
14662 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
14663 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
14664 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
14665 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
14666 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
14667 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
14668 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
14669 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
14670 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
14671 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
14673 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
14674 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
14675 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
14676 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
14677 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14679 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14680 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
14681 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14682 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
14683 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
14684 Closes ticket 24109.
14687 Changes in version 0.3.2.3-alpha - 2017-10-27
14688 Tor 0.3.2.3-alpha is the third release in the 0.3.2 series. It fixes
14689 numerous small bugs in earlier versions of 0.3.2.x, and adds a new
14690 directory authority, Bastet.
14692 o Directory authority changes:
14693 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14694 Closes ticket 23910.
14695 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14696 Closes ticket 23592.
14698 o Minor features (bridge):
14699 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
14700 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
14701 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
14702 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
14703 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
14704 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
14705 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
14707 o Minor features (client, entry guards):
14708 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
14709 Resolves ticket 23670.
14711 o Minor features (geoip):
14712 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14715 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
14716 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
14717 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
14718 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14720 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
14721 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
14722 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14724 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
14725 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
14726 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
14727 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
14728 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
14729 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14731 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
14732 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
14733 only fetch the service descriptor once.
14734 - When a descriptor fetch fails with a non-recoverable error, close
14735 all pending SOCKS requests for that .onion. Fixes bug 23653;
14736 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14738 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
14739 - Always regenerate missing hidden service public key files. Prior
14740 to this, if the public key was deleted from disk, it wouldn't get
14741 recreated. Fixes bug 23748; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. Patch
14743 - Make sure that we have a usable ed25519 key when the intro point
14744 relay supports ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 24002;
14745 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14747 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, v2):
14748 - When reloading configured hidden services, copy all information
14749 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
14750 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
14751 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
14753 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
14754 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
14755 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14757 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14758 - Avoid a BUG warning when receiving a dubious CREATE cell while an
14759 option transition is in progress. Fixes bug 23952; bugfix
14762 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14763 - Adjust the GitLab CI configuration to more closely match that of
14764 Travis CI. Fixes bug 23757; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
14765 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
14766 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14767 - When running unit tests as root, skip a test that would fail
14768 because it expects a permissions error. This affects some
14769 continuous integration setups. Fixes bug 23758; bugfix
14771 - Stop unconditionally mirroring the tor repository in GitLab CI.
14772 This prevented developers from enabling GitLab CI on master. Fixes
14773 bug 23755; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
14774 - Fix the hidden service v3 descriptor decoding fuzzing to use the
14775 latest decoding API correctly. Fixes bug 21509; bugfix
14778 o Minor bugfixes (warnings):
14779 - When we get an HTTP request on a SOCKS port, tell the user about
14780 the new HTTPTunnelPort option. Previously, we would give a "Tor is
14781 not an HTTP Proxy" message, which stopped being true when
14782 HTTPTunnelPort was introduced. Fixes bug 23678; bugfix
14786 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
14787 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
14788 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
14790 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
14791 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
14792 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14794 o Directory authority changes:
14795 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14796 Closes ticket 23910.
14797 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14798 Closes ticket 23592.
14800 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14801 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
14802 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
14803 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
14804 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
14806 o Minor features (geoip):
14807 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14810 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14811 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
14812 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
14813 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
14814 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
14815 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
14816 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
14817 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
14818 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
14820 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14821 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
14822 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
14823 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
14824 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
14825 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
14826 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
14827 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
14828 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
14831 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
14832 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
14833 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
14834 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
14836 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
14837 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
14838 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14840 o Directory authority changes:
14841 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14842 Closes ticket 23910.
14843 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14844 Closes ticket 23592.
14846 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14847 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
14848 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
14849 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14851 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14852 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
14853 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
14854 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
14855 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
14857 o Minor features (geoip):
14858 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14862 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
14863 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
14864 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
14865 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
14867 o Directory authority changes:
14868 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14869 Closes ticket 23910.
14870 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14871 Closes ticket 23592.
14873 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14874 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
14875 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
14876 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14878 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14879 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
14880 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
14881 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
14882 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
14884 o Minor features (geoip):
14885 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14888 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14889 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
14890 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
14891 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
14892 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
14893 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
14894 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
14895 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
14898 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
14899 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
14900 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14902 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14903 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
14904 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
14905 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
14906 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
14907 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14908 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
14911 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
14912 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
14913 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
14914 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
14916 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
14917 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
14918 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14920 o Directory authority changes:
14921 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14922 Closes ticket 23910.
14923 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14924 Closes ticket 23592.
14926 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14927 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
14928 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
14929 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14931 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14932 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
14933 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
14934 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
14935 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
14937 o Minor features (geoip):
14938 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14941 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14942 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
14943 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
14944 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
14945 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
14946 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
14947 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
14948 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
14951 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14952 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
14953 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
14954 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14956 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
14957 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
14958 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14960 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14961 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
14962 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
14963 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
14964 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
14965 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14966 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
14969 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
14970 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
14971 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
14972 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
14973 a new directory authority, Bastet.
14975 o Directory authority changes:
14976 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14977 Closes ticket 23910.
14978 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14979 Closes ticket 23592.
14981 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14982 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
14983 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
14984 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14986 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14987 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
14988 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
14989 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
14990 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
14992 o Minor features (geoip):
14993 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14996 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14997 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
14998 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
14999 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
15001 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15002 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
15003 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
15006 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
15007 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
15008 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
15010 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15011 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
15012 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
15013 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15015 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
15016 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
15017 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15019 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15020 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
15021 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
15025 Changes in version 0.3.2.2-alpha - 2017-09-29
15026 Tor 0.3.2.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.2 series. This
15027 release fixes several minor bugs in the new scheduler and next-
15028 generation onion services; both features were newly added in the 0.3.2
15029 series. Other fixes in this alpha include several fixes for non-fatal
15030 tracebacks which would appear in logs.
15032 With the aim to stabilise the 0.3.2 series by 15 December 2017, this
15033 alpha does not contain any substantial new features. Minor features
15034 include better testing and logging.
15036 The following comprises the complete list of changes included
15039 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
15040 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
15041 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
15042 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
15044 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
15045 - If a channel is put into the scheduler's pending list, then it
15046 starts closing, and then if the scheduler runs before it finishes
15047 closing, the scheduler will get stuck trying to flush its cells
15048 while the lower layers refuse to cooperate. Fix that race
15049 condition by giving the scheduler an escape method. Fixes bug
15050 23676; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15052 o Minor features (build, compilation):
15053 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
15054 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
15055 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
15056 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
15057 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
15058 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
15059 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
15060 Closes ticket 23643.
15062 o Minor features (directory authorities):
15063 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
15064 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
15065 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
15066 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
15068 o Minor features (hidden service, circuit, logging):
15069 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
15070 the circuit identifier(s).
15071 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
15072 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
15074 o Minor features (logging):
15075 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
15076 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
15077 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
15078 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
15079 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
15081 o Minor features (relay):
15082 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
15083 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
15084 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
15085 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
15087 o Minor features (robustness):
15088 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
15089 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
15091 o Minor features (spec conformance, bridge, diagnostic):
15092 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
15093 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
15094 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
15095 related to ticket 23080.
15097 o Minor features (testing):
15098 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
15099 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
15102 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
15103 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
15104 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
15106 - Avoid an assertion failure when logging a state file clock skew
15107 very early in bootstrapping. Fixes bug 23607; bugfix
15110 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
15111 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
15112 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
15113 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
15114 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
15115 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
15116 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
15117 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
15118 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15120 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
15121 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
15122 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
15125 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
15126 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
15127 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
15128 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15130 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
15131 - Don't log an assertion failure when we can't find the right
15132 information to extend to an introduction point. In rare cases,
15133 this could happen, causing a warning, even though tor would
15134 recover gracefully. Fixes bug 23159; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15135 - Pad RENDEZVOUS cell up to the size of the legacy cell which is
15136 much bigger so the rendezvous point can't distinguish which hidden
15137 service protocol is being used. Fixes bug 23420; bugfix
15140 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay):
15141 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
15142 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
15143 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15145 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
15146 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
15147 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
15148 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
15149 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
15150 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15152 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
15153 - When switching schedulers due to a consensus change, we didn't
15154 give the new scheduler a chance to react to the consensus. Fix
15155 that. Fixes bug 23537; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15156 - Make the KISTSchedRunInterval option a non negative value. With
15157 this, the way to disable KIST through the consensus is to set it
15158 to 0. Fixes bug 23539; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15159 - Only notice log the selected scheduler when we switch scheduler
15160 types. Fixes bug 23552; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15161 - Avoid a compilation warning on macOS in scheduler_ev_add() caused
15162 by a different tv_usec data type. Fixes bug 23575; bugfix
15164 - Make a hard exit if tor is unable to pick a scheduler which can
15165 happen if the user specifies a scheduler type that is not
15166 supported and not other types in Schedulers. Fixes bug 23581;
15167 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15168 - Properly initialize the scheduler last run time counter so it is
15169 not 0 at the first tick. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15171 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15172 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
15173 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
15175 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
15176 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
15178 - The removal of some old scheduler options caused some tests to
15179 fail on BSD systems. Assume current behavior is correct and make
15180 the tests pass again. Fixes bug 23566; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15182 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15183 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
15184 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
15187 o Deprecated features:
15188 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
15189 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
15190 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
15193 - HiddenServiceVersion man page entry wasn't mentioning the now
15194 supported version 3. Fixes ticket 23580; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15195 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
15196 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
15197 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
15198 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
15199 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
15200 Closes ticket 18736.
15203 Changes in version 0.3.2.1-alpha - 2017-09-18
15204 Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
15205 includes support for our next-generation ("v3") onion service
15206 protocol, and adds a new circuit scheduler for more responsive
15207 forwarding decisions from relays. There are also numerous other small
15208 features and bugfixes here.
15210 Below are the changes since Tor 0.3.1.7.
15212 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
15213 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
15214 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
15215 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
15216 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
15217 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
15218 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
15219 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
15220 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
15221 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
15222 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
15223 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
15225 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
15226 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
15227 more information, see the design paper at
15228 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
15229 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
15230 Closes ticket 12541.
15232 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
15233 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
15234 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
15235 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
15236 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
15237 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
15240 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
15241 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
15243 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
15246 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
15249 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
15251 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
15253 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
15255 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
15256 they are 56 characters long, as in
15257 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
15259 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
15260 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
15261 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
15262 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
15263 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
15266 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
15267 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
15268 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
15269 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
15270 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
15271 options. We will publish a blog post about this new feature
15274 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
15275 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
15276 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
15277 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
15279 o Minor features (bug detection):
15280 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
15281 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
15282 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
15284 o Minor features (client):
15285 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
15286 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
15287 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
15288 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
15289 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
15290 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
15291 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
15292 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
15293 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
15294 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
15296 o Minor features (command line):
15297 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
15298 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
15299 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
15301 o Minor features (control port):
15302 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
15303 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
15304 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
15306 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
15307 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
15309 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
15310 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
15311 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
15312 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
15313 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
15314 Closes ticket 23237.
15315 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
15316 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
15318 o Minor features (development support):
15319 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
15320 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
15321 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
15322 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
15323 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
15324 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
15326 o Minor features (ed25519):
15327 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
15328 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
15329 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
15331 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
15332 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
15333 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
15335 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
15336 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
15337 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
15338 another program, regardless of the settings of
15339 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
15340 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
15341 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
15343 o Minor features (logging):
15344 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
15345 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
15346 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
15348 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
15349 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
15351 o Minor features (portability):
15352 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
15353 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
15354 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
15355 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
15357 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
15358 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
15359 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
15360 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
15361 results. Closes ticket 22731.
15363 o Minor features (startup, safety):
15364 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
15365 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
15368 o Minor features (static analysis):
15369 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
15370 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
15373 o Minor features (testing):
15374 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
15375 hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
15376 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
15377 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 hidden
15378 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
15380 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
15381 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
15382 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
15383 Coverity as CID 1415728.
15385 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
15386 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
15387 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
15388 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
15389 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
15390 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
15391 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
15392 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15394 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
15395 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
15396 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
15397 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
15398 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15399 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
15400 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
15401 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
15403 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15404 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
15405 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15407 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
15408 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
15409 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
15410 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
15412 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
15413 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
15414 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
15415 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
15416 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
15417 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
15419 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
15420 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
15423 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
15424 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
15425 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
15426 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15428 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
15429 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
15430 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
15431 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
15432 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
15433 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
15434 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
15437 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
15438 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
15439 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
15440 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15442 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging):
15443 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
15444 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15446 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15447 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
15448 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
15449 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
15450 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
15451 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
15453 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
15454 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
15455 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
15457 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
15458 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
15459 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
15461 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
15462 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
15463 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
15464 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
15466 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15467 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
15468 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15470 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15471 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
15472 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
15473 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
15474 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
15475 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
15476 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
15477 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15479 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
15480 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
15481 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
15482 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
15483 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
15484 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
15485 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15487 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
15488 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
15489 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
15490 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15492 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15493 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
15494 function from the general code to handle channel state
15495 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
15496 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
15497 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
15498 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
15499 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
15500 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
15501 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
15502 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
15504 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
15505 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
15507 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
15508 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
15509 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
15510 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
15511 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
15512 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
15513 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
15514 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
15515 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
15516 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
15517 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
15518 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
15520 o Deprecated features:
15521 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
15522 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
15523 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
15527 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
15528 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
15529 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
15530 Closes ticket 15645.
15531 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
15532 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
15533 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
15534 file. Closes ticket 21148.
15536 o Removed features:
15537 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
15538 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
15539 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
15540 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
15541 Closes ticket 21031.
15542 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
15543 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
15546 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
15547 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
15550 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
15551 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
15552 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
15553 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
15555 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
15556 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
15557 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
15558 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
15560 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15561 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
15562 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
15563 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
15564 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
15567 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15570 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15571 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
15572 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
15575 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15576 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
15577 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
15578 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
15579 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
15580 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
15581 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
15582 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
15583 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
15585 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15586 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
15587 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
15588 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
15589 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
15590 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
15591 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
15592 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
15593 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
15596 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
15597 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
15600 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
15601 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
15602 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
15603 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
15605 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
15606 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
15607 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
15608 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
15609 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
15610 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
15611 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
15613 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
15614 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
15615 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
15616 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
15618 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
15619 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
15620 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15622 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15623 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
15624 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15625 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
15627 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15628 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
15629 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
15630 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
15631 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
15633 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15634 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
15635 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
15636 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
15638 o Minor features (geoip):
15639 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15642 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15643 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
15644 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
15645 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
15647 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15648 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
15649 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15650 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
15651 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15652 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
15653 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
15654 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15656 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15657 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
15658 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15660 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15661 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
15662 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
15665 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15666 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
15667 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15668 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
15669 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15671 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15672 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
15673 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
15674 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
15675 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
15676 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15678 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15679 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
15680 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
15681 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
15682 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
15683 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
15684 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
15685 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
15686 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
15688 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15689 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
15690 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
15691 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15693 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15694 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
15695 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15697 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15698 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
15699 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
15700 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
15701 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15703 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
15704 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
15705 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
15708 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15709 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
15710 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
15711 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
15712 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15714 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15715 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
15716 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
15717 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
15718 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
15719 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
15720 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
15721 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
15722 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
15725 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
15726 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
15729 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
15730 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
15731 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
15732 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
15734 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15735 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
15736 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
15737 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
15740 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15743 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15744 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
15745 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15747 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15748 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
15749 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15750 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
15751 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15753 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15754 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
15755 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
15756 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15758 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
15759 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
15760 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
15762 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
15763 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
15764 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
15765 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
15768 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
15769 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
15771 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
15772 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
15773 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
15774 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
15775 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
15776 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
15777 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
15779 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
15780 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
15781 disabled. For more information, see
15782 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
15784 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
15785 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
15786 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
15787 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
15788 with the 0.2.9 series.
15790 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.6-rc. For a list of all
15791 changes since 0.3.0, see the ReleaseNotes file.
15793 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
15794 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
15795 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
15796 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This is also tracked as
15797 TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
15799 o Minor features (defensive programming):
15800 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
15801 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
15802 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
15805 o Minor features (diagnostic):
15806 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
15807 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
15808 attempt for bug 23105.
15810 o Minor features (geoip):
15811 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15814 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15815 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
15816 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15818 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15819 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
15820 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15821 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
15822 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15824 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15825 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
15826 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
15827 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15829 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
15830 - Fix a channelpadding unit test failure on slow systems by using
15831 mocked time instead of actual time. Fixes bug 23077; bugfix
15835 Changes in version 0.3.1.6-rc - 2017-09-05
15836 Tor 0.3.1.6-rc fixes a few small bugs and annoyances in the 0.3.1
15837 release series, including a bug that produced weird behavior on
15838 Windows directory caches.
15840 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.1 series. If we
15841 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.1 release
15842 will be nearly identical to it.
15844 o Major bugfixes (windows, directory cache):
15845 - On Windows, do not try to delete cached consensus documents and
15846 diffs before they are unmapped from memory--Windows won't allow
15847 that. Instead, allow the consensus cache directory to grow larger,
15848 to hold files that might need to stay around longer. Fixes bug
15849 22752; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15851 o Minor features (directory authority):
15852 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
15853 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
15854 Closes ticket 22348.
15856 o Minor features (geoip):
15857 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15860 o Minor features (testing):
15861 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
15864 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
15865 - Fix a memory leak when recovering space in the consensus cache.
15866 Fixes bug 23139; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15868 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
15869 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
15870 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
15871 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
15872 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
15873 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
15874 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
15875 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
15876 - Rate-limit the log messages if we exceed the maximum number of
15877 allowed intro circuits. Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15879 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
15880 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
15881 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
15883 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
15884 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
15885 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
15886 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
15888 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15889 - When a relay is not running as a directory cache, it will no
15890 longer generate compressed consensuses and consensus diff
15891 information. Previously, this was a waste of disk and CPU. Fixes
15892 bug 23275; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15894 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
15895 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
15896 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
15897 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
15898 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
15899 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
15901 o Minor bugfixes (stability):
15902 - Avoid crashing on a double-free when unable to load or process an
15903 included file. Fixes bug 23155; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
15904 with the clang static analyzer.
15906 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15907 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
15908 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
15909 - Port the hs_ntor handshake test to work correctly with recent
15910 versions of the pysha3 module. Fixes bug 23071; bugfix
15913 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
15914 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
15915 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
15916 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
15917 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
15918 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
15919 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
15922 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
15923 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
15924 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
15925 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
15927 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15928 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
15929 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
15930 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
15931 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
15932 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
15933 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
15934 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
15935 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
15937 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15938 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
15939 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15940 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
15942 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15943 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
15944 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
15945 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
15946 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
15948 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15949 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15952 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
15953 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
15954 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
15955 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
15957 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15958 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
15959 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15960 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
15961 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15962 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
15963 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
15964 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
15967 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15968 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
15969 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
15972 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15973 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
15974 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
15975 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
15976 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
15977 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15979 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15980 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
15981 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
15982 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
15984 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15985 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
15986 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15988 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
15989 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
15990 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15993 Changes in version 0.3.1.5-alpha - 2017-08-01
15994 Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha improves the performance of consensus diff
15995 calculation, fixes a crash bug on older versions of OpenBSD, and fixes
15996 several other bugs. If no serious bugs are found in this version, the
15997 next version will be a release candidate.
15999 This release also marks the end of support for the Tor 0.2.4.x,
16000 0.2.6.x, and 0.2.7.x release series. Those releases will receive no
16001 further bug or security fixes. Anyone still running or distributing
16002 one of those versions should upgrade.
16004 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
16005 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
16006 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
16007 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
16008 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
16009 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
16010 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
16011 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
16012 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
16014 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
16015 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
16016 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
16017 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
16018 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
16020 o Major bugfixes (relay, performance):
16021 - Perform circuit handshake operations at a higher priority than we
16022 use for consensus diff creation and compression. This should
16023 prevent circuits from starving when a relay or bridge receives a
16024 new consensus, especially on lower-powered machines. Fixes bug
16025 22883; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16027 o Minor features (bridge authority):
16028 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
16029 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
16031 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
16032 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
16033 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
16034 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
16035 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
16038 o Minor features (geoip):
16039 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16042 o Minor features (relay, performance):
16043 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
16044 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
16045 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
16046 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
16047 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
16050 o Minor bugfixes (build system, rust):
16051 - Fix a problem where Rust toolchains were not being found when
16052 building without --enable-cargo-online-mode, due to setting the
16053 $HOME environment variable instead of $CARGO_HOME. Fixes bug
16054 22830; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fix by Chelsea Komlo.
16056 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, zstd):
16057 - Write zstd epilogues correctly when the epilogue requires
16058 reallocation of the output buffer, even with zstd 1.3.0.
16059 (Previously, we worked on 1.2.0 and failed with 1.3.0). Fixes bug
16060 22927; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16062 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
16063 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
16064 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16065 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
16066 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16067 - Compile correctly when both openssl 1.1.0 and libscrypt are
16068 detected. Previously this would cause an error. Fixes bug 22892;
16069 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16070 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
16071 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
16072 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
16075 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
16076 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
16077 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
16078 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
16079 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
16080 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16082 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16083 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
16084 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
16085 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
16086 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
16087 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
16088 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
16089 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
16092 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
16093 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
16094 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
16097 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
16098 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
16099 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
16100 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16102 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16103 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
16104 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16106 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
16107 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
16108 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
16109 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
16111 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
16112 - test_consdiff_base64cmp would fail on OS X because while OS X
16113 follows the standard of (less than zero/zero/greater than zero),
16114 it doesn't follow the convention of (-1/0/+1). Make the test
16115 comply with the standard. Fixes bug 22870; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16116 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
16117 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16120 Changes in version 0.3.1.4-alpha - 2017-06-29
16121 Tor 0.3.1.4-alpha fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
16122 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
16123 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
16124 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9
16127 This release also fixes several other bugs introduced in 0.3.0.x
16128 and 0.3.1.x, including others that can affect bandwidth usage
16131 o New dependencies:
16132 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
16133 pkg-config tool at build time. (This requirement was new in
16134 0.3.1.1-alpha, but was not noted at the time. Noting it here to
16135 close ticket 22623.)
16137 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
16138 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
16139 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
16140 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
16141 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
16142 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
16144 o Major bugfixes (compression, zstd):
16145 - Correctly detect a full buffer when decompressing a large zstd-
16146 compressed input. Previously, we would sometimes treat a full
16147 buffer as an error. Fixes bug 22628; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16149 o Major bugfixes (directory protocol):
16150 - Ensure that we send "304 Not modified" as HTTP status code when a
16151 client is attempting to fetch a consensus or consensus diff, and
16152 the best one we can send them is one they already have. Fixes bug
16153 22702; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16155 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
16156 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
16157 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
16158 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16160 o Minor features (bug mitigation, diagnostics, logging):
16161 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
16162 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
16163 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
16165 o Minor features (geoip):
16166 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16169 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
16170 - When compressing or decompressing a buffer, check for a failure to
16171 create a compression object. Fixes bug 22626; bugfix
16173 - When decompressing a buffer, check for extra data after the end of
16174 the compressed data. Fixes bug 22629; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16175 - When decompressing an object received over an anonymous directory
16176 connection, if we have already decompressed it using an acceptable
16177 compression method, do not reject it for looking like an
16178 unacceptable compression method. Fixes part of bug 22670; bugfix
16180 - When serving directory votes compressed with zlib, do not claim to
16181 have compressed them with zstd. Fixes bug 22669; bugfix
16183 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
16184 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
16185 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
16186 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
16187 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
16189 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
16190 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
16191 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
16192 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
16193 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
16194 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
16195 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
16196 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
16197 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
16198 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
16199 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
16200 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
16202 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16203 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
16204 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
16205 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
16206 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16207 - Fix a crash in the LZMA module, when the sandbox was enabled, and
16208 liblzma would allocate more than 16 MB of memory. We solve this by
16209 bumping the mprotect() limit in the sandbox module from 16 MB to
16210 20 MB. Fixes bug 22751; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16212 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16213 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
16214 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
16215 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
16216 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
16217 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
16218 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
16219 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
16220 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
16221 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
16222 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16223 - Demote a warn that was caused by libevent delays to info if
16224 netflow padding is less than 4.5 seconds late, or to notice
16225 if it is more (4.5 seconds is the amount of time that a netflow
16226 record might be emitted after, if we chose the maximum timeout).
16227 Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16229 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
16230 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
16231 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
16232 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
16233 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
16234 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
16235 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
16239 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
16241 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
16242 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
16244 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
16245 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
16246 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
16250 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
16251 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
16252 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
16253 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
16254 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
16257 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
16260 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
16261 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
16262 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
16263 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
16264 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
16265 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
16267 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16268 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
16269 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
16270 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
16272 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
16273 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
16274 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
16275 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16277 o Minor features (geoip):
16278 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16281 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16282 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
16283 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
16284 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
16285 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16287 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
16288 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
16289 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
16290 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
16291 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16293 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
16294 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
16295 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
16296 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
16297 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
16298 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
16299 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
16300 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
16301 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
16304 Changes in version 0.3.1.3-alpha - 2017-06-08
16305 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
16306 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16307 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16308 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
16310 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha also includes fixes for several key management bugs
16311 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
16312 bugfixes described below.
16314 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16315 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
16316 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
16317 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16318 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16319 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16320 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16323 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
16324 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
16325 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
16326 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
16327 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
16328 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
16329 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
16332 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
16333 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
16334 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
16335 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
16336 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
16337 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
16338 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
16339 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16340 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
16341 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
16342 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
16343 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
16344 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
16347 o Major bugfixes (torrc, crash):
16348 - Fix a crash bug when using %include in torrc. Fixes bug 22417;
16349 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
16351 o Minor features (code style):
16352 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
16353 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
16354 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
16356 o Minor features (diagnostic):
16357 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
16358 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
16359 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
16360 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
16362 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16363 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16364 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16366 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
16367 - Check for libzstd >= 1.1, because older versions lack the
16368 necessary streaming API. Fixes bug 22413; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16370 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
16371 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
16372 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
16373 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
16374 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
16375 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
16376 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16378 o Minor bugfixes (storage directories):
16379 - Always check for underflows in the cached storage directory usage.
16380 If the usage does underflow, re-calculate it. Also, avoid a
16381 separate underflow when the usage is not known. Fixes bug 22424;
16382 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16384 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
16385 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
16386 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
16390 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
16393 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
16394 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
16395 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16396 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16397 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
16399 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
16400 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
16401 bugfixes described below.
16403 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
16404 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16405 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
16406 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
16407 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16408 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16409 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16410 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16413 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16414 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
16415 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
16416 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
16417 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
16418 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
16419 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
16422 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16423 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
16424 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
16425 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
16426 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
16427 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
16428 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
16429 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16430 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
16431 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
16432 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
16433 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
16434 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
16437 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16438 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
16439 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
16442 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16443 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
16444 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
16445 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
16446 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
16448 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16449 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
16450 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16452 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16453 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16454 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16456 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16457 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
16458 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
16459 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
16460 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
16461 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
16462 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16464 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
16466 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
16467 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
16468 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16471 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
16472 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16473 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16474 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16475 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16476 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16478 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
16479 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
16480 bugfixes described below.
16482 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
16483 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16484 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16485 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16486 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16489 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16490 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
16491 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
16492 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
16493 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
16494 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
16495 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
16498 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16499 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
16500 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
16501 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
16502 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
16504 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
16505 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
16506 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
16507 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
16508 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
16509 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
16510 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
16512 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
16513 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
16514 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
16515 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
16516 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
16518 o Minor features (geoip):
16519 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16522 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
16523 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
16524 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
16525 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16527 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16528 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16529 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16531 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
16532 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
16533 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
16534 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
16535 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
16538 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
16539 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
16540 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
16541 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
16542 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16544 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
16545 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16546 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16547 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16548 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16549 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16551 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16552 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16553 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16554 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16557 o Minor features (geoip):
16558 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16561 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16562 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
16563 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
16564 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
16565 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
16567 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16568 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16569 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16571 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
16572 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16573 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16574 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16575 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16576 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16578 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16579 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16580 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16581 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16584 o Minor features (geoip):
16585 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16588 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16589 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16590 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16593 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
16594 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16595 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16596 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16597 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16598 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16600 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16601 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16602 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16603 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16606 o Minor features (geoip):
16607 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16610 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16611 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16612 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16614 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
16615 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16616 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16617 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16618 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16619 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16621 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16622 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16623 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16624 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16627 o Minor features (geoip):
16628 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16631 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16632 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16633 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16635 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
16636 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16637 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16638 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16639 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16640 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16642 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16643 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16644 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16645 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16648 o Minor features (geoip):
16649 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16652 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16653 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16654 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16657 Changes in version 0.3.1.2-alpha - 2017-05-26
16658 Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
16659 fixes a few bugs found while testing 0.3.1.1-alpha, including a
16660 memory corruption bug that affected relay stability.
16662 o Major bugfixes (crash, relay):
16663 - Fix a memory-corruption bug in relays that set MyFamily.
16664 Previously, they would double-free MyFamily elements when making
16665 the next descriptor or when changing their configuration. Fixes
16666 bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16668 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16669 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
16670 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
16673 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority):
16674 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
16675 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
16676 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16679 Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-05-22
16680 Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
16681 reduces the bandwidth usage for Tor's directory protocol, adds some
16682 basic padding to resist netflow-based traffic analysis and to serve as
16683 the basis of other padding in the future, and adds rust support to the
16686 It also contains numerous other small features and improvements to
16687 security, correctness, and performance.
16689 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.7.
16691 o Major features (directory protocol):
16692 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
16693 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
16694 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
16695 now request these documents when available. When both client and
16696 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
16697 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
16698 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
16699 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
16700 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
16701 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
16702 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
16703 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
16704 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
16705 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
16706 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
16707 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
16708 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
16710 o Major features (experimental):
16711 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
16712 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
16713 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
16714 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
16715 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
16716 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
16717 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
16719 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
16720 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
16721 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
16722 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
16723 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
16724 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
16727 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
16728 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
16729 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
16730 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
16731 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
16732 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
16733 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
16734 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
16735 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
16736 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
16737 multiples of 10000.
16739 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
16740 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
16741 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
16742 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
16743 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
16744 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
16745 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
16746 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
16747 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
16748 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
16749 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
16750 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
16751 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
16752 Otherwise it is at info.
16754 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
16755 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
16756 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
16757 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
16759 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
16760 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
16761 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16762 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
16764 o Minor features (security, windows):
16765 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
16766 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
16767 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
16768 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
16769 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
16771 o Minor features (config options):
16772 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
16773 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
16774 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
16775 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
16776 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
16777 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
16778 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
16779 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
16781 o Minor features (controller):
16782 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
16783 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
16785 o Minor features (defaults):
16786 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
16787 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
16788 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
16789 can. Closes ticket 21407.
16790 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
16791 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
16792 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
16793 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
16794 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
16795 Closes ticket 21641.
16797 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
16798 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
16799 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
16800 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
16801 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
16802 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
16803 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
16805 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
16806 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
16807 introduction points than specified in
16808 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
16809 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
16810 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
16811 21594; closes ticket 21622.
16812 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
16813 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
16814 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
16815 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
16817 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16818 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
16819 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
16820 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
16821 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
16822 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
16823 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
16824 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
16825 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
16826 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
16828 o Minor features (logging):
16829 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
16830 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
16831 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
16832 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
16835 o Minor features (performance):
16836 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
16837 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
16839 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
16840 speed some controller functions.
16842 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
16843 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
16844 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
16845 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
16847 o Minor features (safety):
16848 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
16849 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
16850 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
16853 o Minor features (testing):
16854 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
16855 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
16856 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
16857 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
16858 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
16859 on. Closes ticket 21439.
16860 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
16861 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
16862 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
16863 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
16864 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
16865 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
16866 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
16867 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
16868 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
16869 21507. Partially implements 21470.
16871 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
16872 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
16873 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
16874 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
16876 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
16877 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
16878 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
16879 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
16882 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
16883 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
16884 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16886 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
16887 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
16888 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
16889 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
16890 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
16891 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
16892 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
16893 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
16894 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
16895 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
16896 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
16897 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
16898 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
16899 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
16901 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16902 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
16903 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16904 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
16905 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
16906 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
16907 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
16908 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16910 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16911 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
16912 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
16913 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16914 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
16915 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
16916 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
16918 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
16919 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
16920 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
16921 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
16922 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
16924 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
16925 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
16926 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
16927 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
16928 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
16929 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16930 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
16931 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16932 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
16933 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
16934 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16936 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16937 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
16938 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
16939 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16940 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
16941 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
16942 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16944 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
16945 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
16946 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
16948 o Minor bugfixes (protocol, logging):
16949 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
16950 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
16951 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
16952 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
16954 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16955 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
16956 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
16957 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16958 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
16959 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16960 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
16961 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
16962 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
16963 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
16965 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
16966 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
16967 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
16968 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
16969 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16971 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
16972 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
16973 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16975 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16976 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
16977 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
16978 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
16979 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
16980 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
16981 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
16982 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
16983 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
16984 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
16985 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
16986 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
16988 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
16989 Resolves ticket 22213.
16990 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
16991 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
16992 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
16993 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
16994 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
16995 types. Closes ticket 21651.
16996 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
16997 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
17000 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
17001 Closes ticket 21873.
17002 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
17003 Closes ticket 21151.
17004 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
17005 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
17007 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
17008 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17009 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
17010 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
17012 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
17013 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
17014 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
17015 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
17016 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
17017 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
17018 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
17019 default behavior is now unavailable.
17020 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
17021 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
17022 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
17023 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
17024 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
17025 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
17026 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
17028 o Removed features (tools):
17029 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
17030 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
17031 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
17032 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
17033 required. Closes ticket 21842.
17036 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
17037 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
17038 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
17039 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
17040 clients are not affected.
17042 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
17043 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
17044 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
17045 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
17046 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
17047 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17050 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17053 o Minor features (future-proofing):
17054 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
17055 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
17056 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
17057 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
17058 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
17059 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
17061 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17062 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
17063 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
17064 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
17065 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
17069 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
17070 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
17072 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
17073 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
17074 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
17075 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
17076 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
17077 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
17080 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
17081 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
17083 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
17084 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
17085 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
17086 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
17087 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
17089 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes
17090 since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
17092 o Minor features (geoip):
17093 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17096 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
17097 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
17098 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
17099 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17101 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
17102 - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
17103 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
17104 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17107 Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05
17108 Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the
17109 0.3.0 release series.
17111 This is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series, and has
17112 much fewer changes than the first. If we find no new bugs or
17113 regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release will be nearly
17116 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
17117 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
17118 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
17119 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
17121 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
17122 - Fix a guard selection bug where Tor would refuse to bootstrap in
17123 some cases if the user swapped a bridge for another bridge in
17124 their configuration file. Fixes bug 21771; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17125 Reported by "torvlnt33r".
17127 o Minor features (geoip):
17128 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17131 o Minor bugfix (compilation):
17132 - Fix a warning when compiling hs_service.c. Previously, it had no
17133 exported symbols when compiled for libor.a, resulting in a
17134 compilation warning from clang. Fixes bug 21825; bugfix
17137 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17138 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
17139 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
17140 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
17141 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
17142 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
17143 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
17144 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
17146 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
17147 - Fix a memory leak when using GETCONF on a port option. Fixes bug
17148 21682; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
17150 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
17151 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
17152 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
17155 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
17156 - Run the entry_guard_parse_from_state_full() test with the time set
17157 to a specific date. (The guard state that this test was parsing
17158 contained guards that had expired since the test was first
17159 written.) Fixes bug 21799; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17162 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
17163 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
17164 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
17168 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
17169 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
17170 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
17171 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
17172 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
17175 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
17176 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
17177 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
17179 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
17180 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17181 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17182 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17183 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17184 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17185 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17187 o Minor features (geoip):
17188 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17192 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
17193 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
17194 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
17195 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
17198 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
17199 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
17200 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
17202 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
17203 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
17205 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
17206 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
17207 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
17209 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17210 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
17211 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
17214 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
17215 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
17216 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
17217 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
17218 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
17219 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
17220 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
17221 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
17222 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
17224 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17225 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
17226 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
17227 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
17228 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17229 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
17230 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
17231 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
17232 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17233 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17234 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
17235 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
17236 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
17238 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17239 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
17240 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
17241 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
17242 Reported by Guido Vranken.
17244 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17245 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
17246 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17248 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17249 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
17250 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
17251 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
17252 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
17253 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
17254 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
17257 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
17258 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17259 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17260 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17261 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17262 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17263 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17265 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17266 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
17267 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
17268 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
17271 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17272 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
17273 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
17274 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
17276 o Minor features (geoip):
17277 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17281 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
17282 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
17283 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
17284 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
17287 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
17288 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
17289 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
17291 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
17292 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
17294 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
17295 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
17296 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
17298 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17299 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
17300 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
17303 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
17304 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
17305 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
17306 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
17307 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17308 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17309 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
17310 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
17311 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
17313 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
17314 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
17315 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
17316 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
17317 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
17318 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
17319 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
17320 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
17321 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
17323 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17324 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
17325 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
17326 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
17327 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17329 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
17330 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
17331 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
17332 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
17333 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
17336 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17337 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
17338 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
17339 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
17340 Reported by Guido Vranken.
17342 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17343 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
17344 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17346 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17347 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
17348 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
17349 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
17350 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
17351 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
17354 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17355 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
17356 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
17357 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
17358 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
17359 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
17360 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
17363 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
17364 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17365 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17366 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17367 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17368 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17369 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17371 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17372 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
17373 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
17374 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
17377 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17378 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
17379 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
17380 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
17382 o Minor features (geoip):
17383 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17386 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17387 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
17388 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
17391 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
17392 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
17393 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
17394 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
17397 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
17398 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
17399 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
17401 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
17402 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
17404 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
17405 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
17406 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
17408 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17409 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
17410 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
17413 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
17414 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
17415 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
17416 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
17417 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17418 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17419 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
17420 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
17421 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
17423 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
17424 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
17425 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
17426 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
17427 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
17428 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
17429 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
17430 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
17431 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
17433 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17434 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
17435 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
17436 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
17437 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17439 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
17440 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
17441 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
17442 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
17443 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
17446 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17447 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
17448 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
17449 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
17450 Reported by Guido Vranken.
17452 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17453 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
17454 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17456 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17457 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
17458 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
17459 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
17460 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
17461 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
17464 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17465 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
17466 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
17467 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
17468 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
17469 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
17470 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
17473 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
17474 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17475 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17476 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17477 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17478 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17479 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17481 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17482 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
17483 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
17484 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
17487 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17488 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
17489 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
17490 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
17492 o Minor features (geoip):
17493 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17496 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17497 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
17498 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
17500 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
17501 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
17502 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
17503 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
17504 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
17505 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
17507 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17508 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
17509 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
17513 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
17514 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
17515 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
17516 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
17519 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
17520 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
17521 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
17523 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
17524 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
17526 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
17527 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
17528 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
17530 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17531 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
17532 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
17535 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
17536 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
17537 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
17538 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
17539 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17540 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17541 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
17542 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
17543 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
17545 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
17546 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
17547 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
17548 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
17549 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
17550 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
17551 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
17552 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
17553 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
17555 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
17556 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
17557 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
17558 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
17559 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
17562 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17563 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
17564 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
17565 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
17566 Reported by Guido Vranken.
17568 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17569 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
17570 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17572 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17573 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
17574 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
17575 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
17576 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
17577 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
17580 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17581 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
17582 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
17583 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
17584 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
17585 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
17586 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
17589 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
17590 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17591 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17592 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17593 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17594 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17595 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17597 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17598 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
17599 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
17600 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
17603 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17604 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
17605 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
17606 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
17608 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17609 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
17610 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
17611 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
17613 o Minor features (geoip):
17614 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17617 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17618 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
17619 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
17621 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17622 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
17623 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
17627 Changes in version 0.3.0.4-rc - 2017-03-01
17628 Tor 0.3.0.4-rc fixes some remaining bugs, large and small, in the
17629 0.3.0 release series, and introduces a few reliability features to
17630 keep them from coming back.
17632 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series. If we
17633 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release
17634 will be nearly identical to it.
17636 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
17637 - When the same bridge is configured multiple times with the same
17638 identity, but at different address:port combinations, treat those
17639 bridge instances as separate guards. This fix restores the ability
17640 of clients to configure the same bridge with multiple pluggable
17641 transports. Fixes bug 21027; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17643 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory v3):
17644 - Stop crashing on a failed v3 hidden service descriptor lookup
17645 failure. Fixes bug 21471; bugfixes on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17647 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
17648 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
17649 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
17650 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
17651 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
17652 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
17653 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
17654 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
17655 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
17656 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17657 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17658 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17659 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17660 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17661 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17663 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
17664 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
17665 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
17667 o Minor features (directory authorities):
17668 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
17669 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
17671 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
17672 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
17673 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17674 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
17675 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
17676 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
17677 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
17679 o Minor features (geoip):
17680 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17683 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
17684 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
17685 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
17688 o Minor features (testing):
17689 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
17690 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
17691 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
17693 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
17694 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
17695 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
17697 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
17698 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
17699 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
17700 - Remove a redundant check for the UseEntryGuards option from the
17701 options_transition_affects_guards() function. Fixes bug 21492;
17702 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17704 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
17705 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
17706 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
17707 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
17708 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
17709 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
17710 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
17713 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
17714 - Don't warn about a missing guard state on timeout-measurement
17715 circuits: they aren't supposed to be using guards. Fixes an
17716 instance of bug 21007; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17717 - Silence a BUG() warning when attempting to use a guard whose
17718 descriptor we don't know, and make this scenario less likely to
17719 happen. Fixes bug 21415; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17721 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
17722 - Pass correct buffer length when encoding legacy ESTABLISH_INTRO
17723 cells. Previously, we were using sizeof() on a pointer, instead of
17724 the real destination buffer. Fortunately, that value was only used
17725 to double-check that there was enough room--which was already
17726 enforced elsewhere. Fixes bug 21553; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17728 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17729 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
17730 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch
17732 - Rename "make fuzz" to "make test-fuzz-corpora", since it doesn't
17733 actually fuzz anything. Fixes bug 21447; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
17734 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
17735 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
17736 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17739 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
17742 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
17743 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
17744 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
17745 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
17747 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
17748 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
17749 least January of 2020.
17751 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
17752 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
17753 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
17754 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
17757 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
17758 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
17759 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
17760 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
17761 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
17762 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
17763 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17765 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
17766 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17767 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17768 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17769 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17770 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17771 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17773 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
17774 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
17775 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
17777 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
17778 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
17779 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17781 o Minor features (geoip):
17782 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17785 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
17786 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
17787 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
17789 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
17790 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
17792 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
17793 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
17794 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
17796 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
17797 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
17798 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
17799 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
17800 Patch by "junglefowl".
17803 Changes in version 0.3.0.3-alpha - 2017-02-03
17804 Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha fixes a few significant bugs introduced over the
17805 0.3.0.x development series, including some that could cause
17806 authorities to behave badly. There is also a fix for a longstanding
17807 bug that could prevent IPv6 exits from working. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha also
17808 includes some smaller features and bugfixes.
17810 The Tor 0.3.0.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no additional
17811 features will be considered for inclusion in 0.3.0.x. We suspect that
17812 some bugs will probably remain, however, and we encourage people to
17815 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
17816 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
17817 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
17818 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
17820 - When deciding whether we have just found a router to be reachable,
17821 do not penalize it for not having performed an Ed25519 link
17822 handshake if it does not claim to support an Ed25519 handshake.
17823 Previously, we would treat such relays as non-running. Fixes bug
17824 21107; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17826 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
17827 - Stop trying to build circuits through entry guards for which we
17828 have no descriptor. Also, stop crashing in the case that we *do*
17829 accidentally try to build a circuit in such a state. Fixes bug
17830 21242; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17832 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
17833 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
17834 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
17835 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
17836 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
17837 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
17838 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17840 o Minor feature (client):
17841 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
17842 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
17844 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
17845 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
17846 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
17847 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
17849 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
17850 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
17851 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
17852 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
17853 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
17855 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
17856 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
17857 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
17858 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
17859 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
17860 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
17861 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
17862 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
17863 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
17864 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
17866 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
17867 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
17868 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
17870 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
17871 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
17873 o Minor features (relay):
17874 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
17875 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
17876 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
17877 Written by Michael Sonntag.
17879 o Minor bugfix (logging):
17880 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
17881 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
17882 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
17883 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
17886 o Minor bugfixes (client):
17887 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
17888 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
17889 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17891 o Minor bugfixes (client, entry guards):
17892 - Fix a bug warning (with backtrace) when we fail a channel that
17893 circuits to fallback directories on it. Fixes bug 21128; bugfix
17895 - Fix a spurious bug warning (with backtrace) when removing an
17896 expired entry guard. Fixes bug 21129; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17897 - Fix a bug of the new guard algorithm where tor could stall for up
17898 to 10 minutes before retrying a guard after a long period of no
17899 network. Fixes bug 21052; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17900 - Do not try to build circuits until we have descriptors for our
17901 primary entry guards. Related to fix for bug 21242.
17903 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
17904 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
17905 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
17906 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
17907 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
17908 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
17909 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
17912 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17913 - Restore the (deprecated) DROPGUARDS controller command. Fixes bug
17914 20824; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17916 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
17917 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
17918 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
17919 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
17920 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17921 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
17922 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
17923 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
17925 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
17926 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
17927 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17929 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17930 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
17931 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
17932 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
17934 - When mapping a file of length greater than SIZE_MAX, do not
17935 silently truncate its contents. This issue could occur on 32 bit
17936 systems with large file support and files which are larger than 4
17937 GB. Fixes bug 21134; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17939 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
17940 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
17941 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
17942 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
17943 Patch by "junglefowl".
17945 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
17946 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
17947 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
17951 Changes in version 0.3.0.2-alpha - 2017-01-23
17952 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
17953 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
17954 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
17955 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
17956 version should upgrade.
17958 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha also improves how exit relays and clients handle DNS
17959 time-to-live values, makes directory authorities enforce the 1-to-1
17960 mapping of relay RSA identity keys to ED25519 identity keys, fixes a
17961 client-side onion service reachability bug, does better at selecting
17962 the set of fallback directories, and more.
17964 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
17965 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
17966 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like
17967 others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it on by
17968 default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a
17969 denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on
17972 o Major features (security):
17973 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
17974 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
17975 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
17976 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
17977 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
17978 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
17980 o Major features (directory authority, security):
17981 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
17982 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
17983 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
17985 o Major bugfixes (client, guard, crash):
17986 - In circuit_get_global_origin_list(), return the actual list of
17987 origin circuits. The previous version of this code returned the
17988 list of all the circuits, and could have caused strange bugs,
17989 including possible crashes. Fixes bug 21118; bugfix
17992 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
17993 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
17994 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
17995 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
17996 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
17997 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
17998 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
17999 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
18000 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
18001 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
18002 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18004 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
18005 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
18006 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18008 o Minor features (controller):
18009 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
18010 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
18012 o Minor features (entry guards):
18013 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
18014 break regression tests.
18015 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
18016 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
18018 o Minor features (fallback directories):
18019 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
18021 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
18022 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
18023 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
18024 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
18025 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
18026 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
18027 Closes ticket 20539.
18028 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
18030 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
18031 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
18032 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
18033 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
18034 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
18036 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
18037 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
18038 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
18039 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
18040 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
18041 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
18042 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
18043 Closes ticket 20822.
18044 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
18045 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
18047 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
18048 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
18051 o Minor features (next-gen onion service directories):
18052 - Remove the "EnableOnionServicesV3" consensus parameter that we
18053 introduced in 0.3.0.1-alpha: relays are now always willing to act
18054 as v3 onion service directories. Resolves ticket 19899.
18056 o Minor features (linting):
18057 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
18058 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
18060 o Minor features (logging):
18061 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
18062 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
18064 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
18065 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
18066 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
18067 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
18068 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
18069 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
18071 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
18072 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
18073 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
18074 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
18076 o Minor bugfixes (build):
18077 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
18078 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
18081 o Minor bugfixes (client, guards):
18082 - Fix bug where Tor would think that there are circuits waiting for
18083 better guards even though those circuits have been freed. Fixes
18084 bug 21142; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18086 o Minor bugfixes (config):
18087 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
18088 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
18089 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
18090 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
18092 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18093 - Make the GETINFO interface for inquiring about entry guards
18094 support the new guards backend. Fixes bug 20823; bugfix
18097 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
18098 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
18099 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
18100 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
18101 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
18103 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
18104 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
18105 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
18107 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
18108 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
18109 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18110 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
18111 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
18112 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
18113 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
18114 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
18115 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
18117 o Minor bugfixes (guards, bootstrapping):
18118 - When connecting to a directory guard during bootstrap, do not mark
18119 the guard as successful until we receive a good-looking directory
18120 response from it. Fixes bug 20974; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18122 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
18123 - Fix the config reload pruning of old vs new services so it
18124 actually works when both ephemeral and non-ephemeral services are
18125 configured. Fixes bug 21054; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18126 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
18127 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18129 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
18130 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
18131 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18132 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
18133 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
18134 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
18135 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
18136 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
18138 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
18139 - Fix a memory leak when configuring hidden services. Fixes bug
18140 20987; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18142 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
18143 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
18144 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
18145 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
18147 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
18148 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18150 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
18151 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
18152 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
18153 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
18154 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
18156 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18157 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
18158 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18160 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
18161 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
18162 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
18163 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
18164 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
18166 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18167 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
18168 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
18170 o Documentation (formatting):
18171 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
18172 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
18174 o Documentation (man page):
18175 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
18176 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
18179 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
18180 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
18181 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
18182 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
18183 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
18184 version should upgrade.
18186 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
18187 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
18189 o Major bugfixes (security):
18190 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
18191 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
18192 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
18193 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
18194 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
18195 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18197 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
18198 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
18199 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
18200 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
18201 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
18202 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
18203 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
18204 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
18205 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
18206 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
18207 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18209 o Minor features (geoip):
18210 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
18213 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18214 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
18215 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
18216 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
18218 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
18219 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18222 Changes in version 0.3.0.1-alpha - 2016-12-19
18223 Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.3.0 development
18224 series. It strengthens Tor's link and circuit handshakes by
18225 identifying relays by their Ed25519 keys, improves the algorithm that
18226 clients use to choose and maintain their list of guards, and includes
18227 additional backend support for the next-generation hidden service
18228 design. It also contains numerous other small features and
18229 improvements to security, correctness, and performance.
18231 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.8.
18233 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
18234 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
18235 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
18236 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
18237 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
18240 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
18241 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
18242 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
18243 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
18244 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
18245 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
18246 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
18247 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
18250 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
18251 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
18252 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
18253 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
18254 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
18256 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
18257 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
18258 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
18259 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
18260 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
18261 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
18262 15056; part of proposal 220.
18263 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
18264 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
18265 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
18266 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
18267 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
18269 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
18270 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
18271 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
18272 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
18273 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
18275 o Minor features (controller):
18276 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
18277 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
18280 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
18281 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
18282 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
18285 o Minor features (directory authority):
18286 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
18287 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
18288 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
18289 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
18290 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
18292 o Minor features (directory cache):
18293 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
18294 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
18297 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
18298 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
18299 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
18300 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
18302 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
18303 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
18304 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
18305 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
18307 o Minor features (infrastructure):
18308 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
18309 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
18311 o Minor bugfixes (client):
18312 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
18313 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
18314 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
18316 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
18317 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
18318 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18319 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
18320 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
18321 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
18323 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
18324 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
18325 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
18326 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
18327 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
18329 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
18330 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
18331 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
18332 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
18333 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18335 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
18336 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
18337 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
18338 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
18339 on all recent tor versions.
18340 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
18341 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
18342 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
18343 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18345 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
18346 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
18347 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18349 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18350 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
18351 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
18352 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
18355 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
18356 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
18357 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
18360 o Minor bugfixes (util):
18361 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
18362 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
18363 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
18364 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
18366 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
18367 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
18368 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
18369 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
18371 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18372 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
18373 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
18374 Closes ticket 19858.
18375 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
18376 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
18377 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
18378 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
18379 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
18380 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
18381 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
18382 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
18383 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
18384 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
18385 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
18386 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
18387 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
18388 redundant with the similar structures used in the
18389 channel abstraction.
18390 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
18391 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
18392 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
18393 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
18394 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
18395 replaced with code automatically generated by the
18399 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
18400 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18401 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
18402 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
18404 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
18405 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix
18407 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
18408 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
18409 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
18410 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
18411 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
18414 o Removed features:
18415 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
18416 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
18417 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
18419 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
18420 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
18421 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
18424 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
18425 from "overcaffeinated".
18426 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
18427 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
18428 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
18429 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
18430 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
18434 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
18435 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
18436 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
18437 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
18438 become available for their systems.
18440 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
18443 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
18444 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
18446 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
18447 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
18448 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
18449 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
18450 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
18451 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
18452 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
18453 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
18454 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
18456 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
18457 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
18458 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
18459 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
18460 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
18462 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
18463 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18467 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
18468 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
18470 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
18471 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
18472 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
18473 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
18474 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
18475 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
18476 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
18477 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
18479 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
18481 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
18482 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
18483 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
18484 become available for their systems.
18486 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes
18487 since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
18489 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security):
18490 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
18491 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
18492 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
18493 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
18494 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
18495 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
18496 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
18497 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
18499 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
18500 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
18501 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
18502 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
18503 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
18506 Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
18507 Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc,
18508 including a few that had prevented tests from passing on
18511 o Minor features (geoip):
18512 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18515 o Minor bugfix (build):
18516 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
18517 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
18518 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18520 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
18521 - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were
18522 looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for
18523 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
18525 o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling):
18526 - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose
18527 delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
18529 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18530 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
18531 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
18534 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
18535 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
18536 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
18537 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
18538 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
18539 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
18541 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18542 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
18543 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
18544 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
18546 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18547 - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac
18548 Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
18550 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
18551 - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part
18552 of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
18553 - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons
18554 between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10
18555 us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's
18556 clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18557 - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop
18558 ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone.
18559 Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
18562 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
18563 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
18564 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
18565 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
18568 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18569 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
18570 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
18571 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
18572 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
18573 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
18576 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18577 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
18578 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
18581 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
18582 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
18583 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
18584 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
18586 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18587 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
18588 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
18589 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
18592 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18593 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
18594 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
18595 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
18598 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
18599 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
18600 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
18603 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18604 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
18605 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18607 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18608 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
18609 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
18611 o Minor features (geoip):
18612 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18615 Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02
18616 Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha
18617 version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we
18618 encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are
18619 found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable.
18621 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
18622 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
18623 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
18624 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
18625 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
18626 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18628 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
18629 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
18630 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18632 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18633 - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden
18634 services and single onion services when first starting tor.
18635 Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been
18636 used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug
18637 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf.
18639 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18640 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
18641 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
18643 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
18644 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
18646 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
18647 - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately
18648 created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages
18649 are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits
18650 hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on
18651 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly".
18653 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
18654 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
18655 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
18659 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
18660 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
18663 Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08
18664 Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha
18665 version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage
18666 everyone to test this release.
18668 o Major bugfixes (client performance):
18669 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
18670 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
18671 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
18674 o Major bugfixes (client reliability):
18675 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
18676 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
18677 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
18680 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
18681 - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on
18682 downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since
18683 each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't
18684 hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18685 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
18686 download, stop waiting for certificates.
18687 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
18688 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
18689 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
18691 - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since
18692 we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we
18693 must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part
18694 of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18695 - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes
18696 another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18697 - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times
18698 after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this
18699 will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18700 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
18701 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
18702 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
18704 o Minor features (geoip):
18705 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18708 o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling):
18709 - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a
18710 reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that
18711 exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we
18712 would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593;
18713 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18715 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging):
18716 - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead,
18717 assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is
18718 available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
18719 - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname
18720 lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18722 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18723 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
18724 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
18725 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
18728 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18729 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
18730 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
18731 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
18732 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
18733 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18734 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
18735 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18737 o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap):
18738 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
18739 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18741 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
18742 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
18743 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
18744 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
18745 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
18746 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
18747 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
18748 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18750 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
18751 - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a
18752 directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix
18755 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18756 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
18757 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18760 - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to
18761 also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
18762 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
18763 tickets 19287 and 19290.
18766 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
18767 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
18768 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
18769 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
18770 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
18773 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
18774 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
18775 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
18776 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
18777 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
18778 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
18779 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
18780 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
18781 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
18783 o Minor features (geoip):
18784 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18788 Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
18789 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor
18790 that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden
18791 service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this
18792 version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions
18795 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to
18796 previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to
18797 future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug
18798 fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly,
18799 and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be
18800 the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will
18801 be a release candidate.
18803 o Major features (security fixes):
18804 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
18805 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
18806 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
18807 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
18808 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
18809 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
18810 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
18811 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
18813 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
18814 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
18815 subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
18816 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
18817 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
18818 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
18819 Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
18820 - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
18821 Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
18822 a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
18823 should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
18824 change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
18825 exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
18826 releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
18829 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
18830 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
18831 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
18833 o Minor features (client, directory):
18834 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
18835 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
18836 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
18839 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
18840 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
18843 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
18844 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
18845 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
18848 o Minor features (geoip):
18849 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18852 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
18853 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
18854 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
18855 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
18856 domain socket paths to contain spaces.
18858 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
18859 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
18860 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
18861 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
18864 o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
18865 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
18866 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
18867 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
18868 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
18870 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
18871 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
18872 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
18875 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
18876 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
18877 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
18878 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
18880 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
18881 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
18882 handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
18883 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
18885 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
18886 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
18887 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
18888 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
18891 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
18892 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
18893 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
18897 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
18898 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
18900 o Required libraries:
18901 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
18902 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
18903 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
18906 Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
18907 Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make
18908 high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism
18909 without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It
18910 also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the
18911 strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and
18912 resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8
18913 series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade.
18915 o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8):
18916 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
18917 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
18918 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
18919 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
18920 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18922 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8):
18923 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
18924 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
18925 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
18926 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
18929 o Major features (circuit building, security):
18930 - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
18931 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
18932 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
18934 - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
18935 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
18937 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
18938 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
18939 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
18940 every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
18941 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
18942 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
18943 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
18944 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
18945 hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
18946 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
18947 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
18949 o Major features (resource management):
18950 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
18951 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
18952 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
18953 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
18954 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
18955 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
18957 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
18958 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
18959 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
18960 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
18962 o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
18963 - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would
18964 prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from
18965 rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18967 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
18968 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
18969 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
18970 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
18971 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
18972 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
18974 o Minor features (security, TLS):
18975 - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
18976 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
18977 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
18978 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
18980 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
18981 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
18982 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
18983 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
18985 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8):
18986 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18989 o Minor feature (port flags):
18990 - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
18991 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
18992 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
18993 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
18994 18693; patch by "teor".
18996 o Minor features (directory authority):
18997 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
18998 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
18999 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
19001 o Minor features (testing):
19002 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
19003 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
19004 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
19005 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
19007 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
19008 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
19009 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
19010 with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
19011 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
19012 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
19013 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
19014 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
19015 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
19017 o Minor features (Tor2web):
19018 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
19019 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
19020 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
19022 o Minor features (unit tests):
19023 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
19024 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
19025 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
19026 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
19027 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
19028 (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
19029 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
19030 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
19032 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
19033 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
19034 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
19035 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
19036 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
19037 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
19038 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
19039 assertion as a test failure.
19041 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
19042 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
19043 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
19044 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
19045 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
19046 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
19048 o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
19049 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
19050 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
19051 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
19052 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
19053 - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers.
19054 Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the
19055 standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the
19056 first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS).
19057 - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC-
19058 compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
19059 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
19060 - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings.
19061 They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't
19062 currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads
19063 wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
19065 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
19066 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
19067 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
19068 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
19069 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19070 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
19071 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
19074 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
19075 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
19076 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
19077 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
19078 in 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
19079 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
19080 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
19083 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
19084 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
19085 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
19086 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
19088 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
19089 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
19090 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
19092 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19093 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
19094 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
19095 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
19096 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
19097 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19099 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19100 - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about
19101 what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were
19102 asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix
19104 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
19105 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
19106 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
19108 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
19109 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
19110 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
19111 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
19112 behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
19113 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
19115 o Minor bugfixes (options):
19116 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
19117 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
19119 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
19120 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
19121 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
19124 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
19125 - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
19126 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
19127 19678. Patch by teor.
19129 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
19130 - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian
19131 architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied
19132 to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data
19133 and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and
19134 REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix
19136 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
19137 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
19141 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
19142 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
19143 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
19144 who select public relays as their bridges.
19146 o Major bugfixes (crash):
19147 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
19148 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
19149 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
19150 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
19151 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19153 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
19154 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
19155 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
19156 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
19157 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
19160 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
19161 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
19162 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
19163 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
19165 o Minor features (geoip):
19166 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19170 Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
19171 Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with
19172 several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important
19173 authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who
19174 sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
19175 encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha.
19177 o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7):
19178 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
19179 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
19181 o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7):
19182 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
19183 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
19184 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
19185 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
19186 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19188 o Major features (user interface):
19189 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
19190 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
19191 this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
19193 o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
19194 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
19195 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
19196 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
19198 o Minor features (config):
19199 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
19200 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
19202 o Minor features (geoip):
19203 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19206 o Minor features (user interface):
19207 - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
19208 list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
19211 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
19212 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
19213 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
19215 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19216 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
19217 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
19219 - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our
19220 ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,
19221 when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.
19222 Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
19224 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):
19225 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
19226 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
19229 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):
19230 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
19231 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
19232 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
19234 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19235 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
19236 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
19238 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
19239 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
19240 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
19242 o Deprecated features:
19243 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
19244 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
19245 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
19246 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
19247 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
19248 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
19249 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
19250 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
19251 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
19252 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
19253 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
19254 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
19255 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
19256 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
19257 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
19258 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
19259 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
19260 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
19261 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
19262 and TransListenAddress.
19265 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
19266 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
19269 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
19270 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
19273 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
19274 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
19275 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
19276 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
19277 encouraged to upgrade.
19279 o Directory authority changes:
19280 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
19281 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
19283 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
19284 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
19285 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
19286 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
19287 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
19288 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19290 o Minor features (geoip):
19291 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19294 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19295 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
19296 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
19299 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
19300 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
19301 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
19302 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
19305 Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
19306 Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development
19307 series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler
19308 warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to
19309 hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for
19310 better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to
19311 log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to
19312 security, correctness, and performance.
19314 Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6.
19316 o New system requirements:
19317 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
19318 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
19319 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
19320 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
19321 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
19322 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
19323 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
19324 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
19326 o Major features (build, hardening):
19327 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
19328 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
19329 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
19330 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
19331 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
19332 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
19333 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
19334 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
19335 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
19337 o Major features (compilation):
19338 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
19339 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
19340 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
19341 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
19343 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
19344 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
19345 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
19347 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
19348 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
19349 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
19350 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
19351 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
19352 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
19353 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
19354 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
19356 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
19357 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
19358 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
19359 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
19360 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
19361 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
19362 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
19364 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
19365 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
19366 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
19367 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
19368 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
19369 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
19370 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
19372 o Major bugfixes (hidden service client):
19373 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
19374 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
19375 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
19376 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
19378 o Minor features (build, hardening):
19379 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
19380 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
19381 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
19382 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
19383 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
19384 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
19385 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
19386 Closes ticket 18895.
19388 o Minor features (code safety):
19389 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
19390 give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
19393 o Minor features (controller):
19394 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
19395 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
19396 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
19397 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
19398 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
19399 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
19400 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
19401 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
19403 o Minor features (directory authority):
19404 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
19405 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
19406 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
19407 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
19408 Implements ticket 18624.
19409 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
19410 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
19411 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
19414 o Minor features (hidden service):
19415 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
19416 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
19417 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
19420 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
19421 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
19422 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
19423 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
19424 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
19425 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
19426 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
19427 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
19428 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
19429 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
19430 Closes ticket 18365.
19432 o Minor features (logging):
19433 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
19434 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
19435 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
19436 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
19437 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
19438 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
19439 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
19440 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
19441 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
19442 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
19444 o Minor features (performance):
19445 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
19446 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
19447 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
19448 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
19449 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
19450 Closes ticket 18815.
19452 o Minor features (relay, usability):
19453 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
19454 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
19455 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
19456 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
19459 o Minor features (testing):
19460 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
19461 part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
19462 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
19463 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
19464 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
19465 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
19466 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
19467 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
19470 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
19471 - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
19472 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
19473 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
19474 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19476 o Minor bugfixes (build):
19477 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
19478 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
19479 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
19480 patch from "cypherpunks".
19482 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
19483 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
19484 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19486 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19487 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
19488 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
19489 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19491 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
19492 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
19493 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
19494 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
19495 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
19496 the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
19497 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
19498 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19500 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
19501 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
19502 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
19503 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
19504 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
19505 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
19506 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
19508 o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service):
19509 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
19510 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
19513 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
19514 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
19515 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
19517 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
19518 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
19519 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
19522 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
19523 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
19524 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
19525 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
19528 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19529 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
19530 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
19532 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
19533 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
19534 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
19537 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19538 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
19539 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
19540 - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
19541 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
19542 generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
19543 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
19544 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
19545 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
19548 o Minor bugfixes (time):
19549 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
19550 bugfix on all released tor versions.
19551 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
19552 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
19553 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
19554 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
19556 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
19557 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
19558 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
19559 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
19560 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
19562 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
19563 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19565 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19566 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
19568 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
19569 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
19570 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
19571 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
19574 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
19575 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
19577 o Removed features:
19578 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
19579 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
19580 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
19581 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
19582 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
19583 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch
19584 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
19587 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
19588 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
19589 command-line options to enable them.
19590 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
19591 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
19594 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
19596 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
19598 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
19599 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
19600 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
19601 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
19602 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
19603 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
19605 Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc:
19607 o Minor features (geoip):
19608 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19611 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19612 - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char
19613 is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19615 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
19616 - Remove 1 fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out,
19617 leaving 89 of the 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
19618 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes ticket 19782; patch by teor.
19620 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19621 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
19622 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
19623 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
19624 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
19625 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
19626 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
19627 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19630 Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07
19631 Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8
19632 series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable
19633 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes
19634 against previous versions.
19636 o Directory authority changes:
19637 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
19639 o Major bugfixes (heartbeat):
19640 - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic
19641 "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on
19642 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku".
19644 o Minor features (build):
19645 - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
19646 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
19647 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
19648 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19649 Patch from intrigeri.
19651 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection):
19652 - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible
19653 fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch
19656 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors):
19657 - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This
19658 allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors
19659 from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus
19660 has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix
19663 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19664 - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers
19665 can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and
19666 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
19667 - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard-
19668 coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log
19669 message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
19671 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing):
19672 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
19673 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
19674 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
19676 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
19677 - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after
19678 descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST
19679 control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is
19680 only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is
19681 pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19683 o Fallback directory list:
19684 - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that
19685 explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's
19686 compatible with the stem fallback parser.
19687 - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator
19688 emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile)
19689 fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
19690 - Remove 10 unsuitable fallbacks, leaving 90 of the 100 fallbacks
19691 originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes
19692 ticket 19071; patch by teor.
19695 Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
19696 Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
19697 If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
19698 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
19701 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
19702 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
19703 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
19704 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19706 o Minor features (build):
19707 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
19708 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
19710 o Minor features (geoip):
19711 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19714 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19715 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
19716 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
19718 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
19719 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
19720 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
19721 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
19725 Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26
19726 Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over
19727 the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of
19728 directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler
19729 hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on
19732 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
19733 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
19734 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
19735 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
19736 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
19738 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
19739 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
19740 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
19741 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
19742 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
19743 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
19745 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
19746 - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when
19747 the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes
19748 bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19750 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
19751 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
19752 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
19753 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
19754 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
19755 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
19756 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
19758 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
19759 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
19761 - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we
19762 don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809;
19763 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor.
19765 o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
19766 - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way
19767 we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these
19768 decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like
19769 advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not
19770 advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19773 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client):
19774 - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for
19775 IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch
19778 o Major bugfixes (key management):
19779 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
19780 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
19781 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
19782 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
19783 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
19784 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
19787 o Major bugfixes (testing):
19788 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
19789 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
19790 - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668;
19791 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19793 o Minor features (clients):
19794 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
19795 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
19796 ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
19798 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
19799 - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict
19800 fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail
19801 changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors
19802 to the whitelist; and many other minor simplifications and fixes.
19803 Closes tasks 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug 18812 on
19804 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
19805 - Replace the 21 fallbacks generated in January 2016 and included in
19806 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha, with a list of 100 fallbacks generated in March
19807 2016. Closes task 17158; patch by "teor".
19809 o Minor features (geoip):
19810 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19813 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
19814 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
19815 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
19818 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
19819 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
19820 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
19822 o Minor bugfixes (build):
19823 - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
19824 configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix
19826 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
19827 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
19829 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
19830 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
19833 o Minor bugfixes (client):
19834 - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options.
19835 This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of
19836 them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled
19837 anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19838 - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only
19839 clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929;
19840 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19842 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
19843 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
19844 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
19845 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
19846 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19848 o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability):
19849 - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big
19850 Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is
19851 primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19852 - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
19853 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes
19856 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
19857 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
19858 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
19859 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
19860 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
19861 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19863 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19864 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
19865 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
19866 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19867 - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per
19868 second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19869 - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at
19870 PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19872 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
19873 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
19874 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
19875 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
19877 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
19878 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
19879 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
19880 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
19881 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
19882 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
19885 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
19886 - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to
19887 regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix
19889 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
19890 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
19891 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19893 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
19894 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
19895 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
19897 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19898 - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping
19899 DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003;
19900 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
19901 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
19902 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
19903 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
19905 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
19906 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
19907 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
19908 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19911 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
19912 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
19913 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
19914 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
19917 Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
19918 Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous
19919 bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented
19920 authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and
19921 directory support should also be much improved.
19923 o New system requirements:
19924 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
19925 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
19926 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
19927 longer runs with, these versions.
19928 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
19929 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
19930 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
19932 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
19933 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
19934 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
19935 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
19936 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
19938 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
19939 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
19940 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
19941 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
19942 Reported by Guido Vranken.
19944 o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports):
19945 - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow
19946 bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that
19947 ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes
19948 bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
19950 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
19951 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
19952 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
19953 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
19955 o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown):
19956 - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down.
19957 Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19958 - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in
19959 rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19961 o Major bugfixes (crash on startup):
19962 - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was
19963 configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort
19964 "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to
19965 switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string
19966 compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19969 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
19970 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
19971 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
19973 o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
19974 - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
19975 bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line.
19976 Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb,
19979 o Major bugfixes (voting):
19980 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
19981 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
19982 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
19983 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
19985 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
19986 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
19987 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
19988 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19989 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
19990 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
19991 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
19992 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
19993 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
19994 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19996 o Minor features (security, win32):
19997 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
19998 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
20001 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
20002 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
20003 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
20004 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
20006 o Minor features (build):
20007 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
20008 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
20009 Steven Chamberlain.
20011 o Minor features (code hardening):
20012 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
20013 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
20014 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
20017 o Minor features (crypto):
20018 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
20019 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
20022 o Minor features (geoip):
20023 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
20026 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
20027 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
20028 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
20029 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
20030 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
20032 o Minor features (IPv6):
20033 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
20034 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
20035 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
20036 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
20037 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
20038 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
20039 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
20041 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20042 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
20043 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
20044 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
20045 while fixing 18548.
20047 o Minor features (robustness):
20048 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
20049 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
20050 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
20052 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
20053 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
20054 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
20055 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
20056 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
20057 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
20058 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
20061 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
20062 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
20063 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
20064 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
20065 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
20067 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
20068 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
20069 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
20070 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
20072 o Minor bugfixes (build):
20073 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
20074 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
20076 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
20077 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
20078 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
20079 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
20080 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
20081 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
20083 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
20084 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
20085 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
20086 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
20087 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20089 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
20090 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
20091 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
20092 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
20095 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
20096 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
20097 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20099 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
20100 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
20101 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
20102 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
20104 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
20105 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
20106 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
20107 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
20108 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
20109 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20111 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
20112 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
20113 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
20114 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
20116 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
20117 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
20118 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
20119 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
20120 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
20122 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
20123 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
20124 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
20125 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
20126 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
20127 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
20128 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
20129 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
20130 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
20133 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
20134 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
20135 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
20136 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20138 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
20139 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
20140 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
20142 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20143 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
20144 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
20145 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20146 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
20147 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
20148 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20149 - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
20150 setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
20152 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
20153 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
20154 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
20155 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
20156 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
20157 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
20158 - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level.
20159 Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing
20160 bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
20161 Christian, patch by teor.
20163 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
20164 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
20165 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
20166 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
20168 - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list().
20169 Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf,
20170 patch by "cypherpunks".
20171 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
20173 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
20174 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20176 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
20177 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
20178 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
20179 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
20181 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
20182 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
20183 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
20186 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20187 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
20188 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
20189 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
20190 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
20191 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20193 o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
20194 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
20195 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
20196 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
20198 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
20199 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
20200 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
20201 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
20203 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20204 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
20205 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
20206 17744. Patch from zerosion.
20207 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
20208 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
20209 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
20210 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
20211 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
20214 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
20215 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
20216 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
20218 o Removed features:
20219 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
20220 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
20221 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
20224 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
20226 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
20227 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
20230 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
20231 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
20232 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
20233 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
20234 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
20236 o Major features (security, Linux):
20237 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
20238 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
20239 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
20240 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
20241 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
20243 o Major features (directory system):
20244 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
20245 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
20246 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
20247 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
20248 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
20249 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
20250 "mikeperry" and "teor".
20251 - Include a trial list of 21 default fallback directories, generated
20252 in January 2016, based on an opt-in survey of suitable relays.
20253 Doing this should make clients bootstrap more quickly and reliably,
20254 and reduce the load on the directory authorities. Closes ticket
20255 15775. Patch by "teor".
20256 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
20257 "gsathya", and "karsten".
20258 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
20259 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
20260 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
20261 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
20262 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
20265 o Major key updates:
20266 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
20267 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
20270 o Minor features (security, clock):
20271 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
20272 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
20273 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
20274 "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
20276 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
20277 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
20278 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
20279 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
20280 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
20281 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20283 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
20284 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
20285 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
20286 Implements ticket 17026.
20287 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
20288 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
20289 Implements feature 17986.
20290 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
20291 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
20292 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
20293 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
20294 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
20295 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
20298 o Minor features (security, RNG):
20299 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
20300 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
20301 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
20302 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
20303 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
20304 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
20305 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
20306 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
20307 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
20308 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
20311 o Minor features (accounting):
20312 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
20313 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
20314 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
20315 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
20317 o Minor features (build):
20318 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
20319 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
20320 patch from "cypherpunks."
20321 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
20322 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
20323 17549, 17921, and 17984.
20325 o Minor features (controller):
20326 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
20327 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
20328 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
20329 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
20330 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
20331 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
20332 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
20333 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
20336 o Minor features (crypto):
20337 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
20339 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
20340 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
20341 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
20342 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
20343 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
20344 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
20345 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
20346 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
20348 o Minor features (directory downloads):
20349 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
20350 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
20351 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
20352 17864; patch by "teor".
20353 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
20354 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
20355 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
20357 o Minor features (geoip):
20358 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
20361 o Minor features (IPv6):
20362 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
20363 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
20364 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
20365 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
20366 from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
20367 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
20368 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
20369 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
20370 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
20371 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
20372 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
20374 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
20375 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20376 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
20377 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
20379 o Minor features (logging):
20380 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
20381 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
20382 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
20383 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
20386 o Minor features (portability):
20387 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
20388 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
20390 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
20391 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
20392 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
20393 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
20394 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
20396 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
20397 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
20398 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
20399 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
20400 Resolves ticket 17951.
20402 o Minor features (replay cache):
20403 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
20404 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
20406 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
20407 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
20408 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
20409 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
20410 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
20411 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
20412 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
20413 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
20414 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
20415 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
20416 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
20417 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
20418 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
20419 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
20421 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
20422 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
20423 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
20424 from "unixninja92".
20426 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
20427 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
20428 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
20429 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
20430 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
20431 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
20433 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
20436 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20437 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
20438 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
20439 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20440 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
20441 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
20442 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
20443 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
20445 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
20446 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
20447 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
20448 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
20449 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
20450 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
20451 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
20452 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
20454 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
20455 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
20457 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
20458 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
20459 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20461 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
20462 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
20463 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
20464 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20466 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
20467 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
20468 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20470 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20471 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
20472 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
20474 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
20475 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
20476 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
20477 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
20478 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
20480 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
20481 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20483 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
20484 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
20485 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
20488 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
20489 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
20490 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
20491 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
20492 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
20493 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
20495 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
20496 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
20497 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
20498 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
20499 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
20501 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
20502 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
20503 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
20506 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
20507 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
20508 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
20509 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20510 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
20511 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
20512 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
20513 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
20516 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20517 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
20518 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
20519 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
20520 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
20521 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
20522 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
20523 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
20524 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
20525 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
20527 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
20528 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20530 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20531 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
20532 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
20533 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
20534 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
20535 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
20536 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
20537 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
20538 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
20539 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
20541 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
20542 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
20543 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
20544 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
20546 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
20547 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
20548 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
20549 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
20550 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
20552 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
20553 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
20556 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
20557 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
20558 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
20559 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
20560 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
20561 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
20562 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
20565 o Removed features:
20566 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
20567 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
20568 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
20569 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
20570 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
20573 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
20574 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
20575 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
20576 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
20577 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
20578 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
20579 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
20580 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
20581 portion of ticket 16831.
20582 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
20583 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
20584 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
20586 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
20587 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
20590 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
20591 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
20592 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
20594 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
20595 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
20596 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
20597 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
20598 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
20599 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
20602 o Minor features (geoip):
20603 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20606 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20607 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
20608 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
20609 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
20610 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
20611 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
20613 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
20614 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
20615 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
20616 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
20617 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
20618 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
20619 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
20620 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20621 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
20622 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20625 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
20626 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
20627 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
20628 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
20629 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
20630 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
20631 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
20632 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
20633 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
20634 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
20635 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
20636 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
20637 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
20638 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
20639 that would make him proud.
20641 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
20643 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
20644 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
20645 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
20646 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
20647 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
20648 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
20649 of Tor invoke which others.
20651 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
20654 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
20655 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
20656 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
20657 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
20658 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
20659 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
20660 release will the the official stable release.
20662 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
20663 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
20664 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
20665 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
20666 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
20669 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
20670 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
20671 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
20673 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
20674 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
20675 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
20676 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
20677 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
20678 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
20679 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
20681 o Minor features (geoIP):
20682 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20685 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20686 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
20687 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
20688 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
20689 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20690 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
20691 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
20693 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
20694 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
20695 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
20698 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
20699 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
20700 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
20701 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
20703 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20704 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
20705 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
20706 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
20707 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
20708 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
20709 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
20710 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
20711 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
20712 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
20713 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
20717 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
20718 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
20722 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
20723 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
20724 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
20725 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
20726 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
20728 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
20729 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
20730 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
20731 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
20733 o Major features (security, hidden services):
20734 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
20735 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
20736 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
20737 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
20738 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
20739 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
20740 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
20742 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
20743 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
20744 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
20745 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
20746 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
20747 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
20750 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
20751 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
20752 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
20753 available. Implements ticket 16535.
20754 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
20755 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
20758 o Major features (performance testing):
20759 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
20760 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
20761 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
20763 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
20764 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
20765 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
20766 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
20768 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
20769 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
20770 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
20771 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
20772 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
20773 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
20775 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
20776 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
20778 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
20779 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
20780 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
20781 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
20782 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
20784 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
20785 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
20786 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
20787 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
20788 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
20789 own. Implements feature 15482.
20790 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
20791 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
20793 o Minor features (compilation):
20794 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
20795 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
20796 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
20797 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
20798 which started requiring ECC.
20800 o Minor features (geoip):
20801 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20804 o Minor features (hidden services):
20805 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
20806 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
20807 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
20808 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
20809 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
20810 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
20811 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
20812 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
20814 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
20815 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
20816 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
20819 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
20820 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
20821 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
20822 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
20824 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
20825 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
20826 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
20827 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
20828 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
20830 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
20831 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
20832 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
20833 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
20834 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20835 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
20836 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
20837 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
20838 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
20839 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
20840 Related to ticket 16069.
20841 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
20842 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
20843 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
20844 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
20845 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
20846 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20848 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
20849 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
20850 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20851 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
20852 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
20854 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
20855 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
20856 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20858 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
20859 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
20860 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
20861 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20863 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
20864 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
20865 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
20866 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
20867 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20869 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
20870 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
20871 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
20872 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
20873 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
20874 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
20875 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
20876 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
20877 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
20878 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
20879 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
20882 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
20883 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
20884 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20886 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20887 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
20888 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20889 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
20890 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20892 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
20893 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
20894 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
20895 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
20897 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
20898 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
20899 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
20901 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
20902 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
20903 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
20904 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
20905 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
20906 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20907 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
20908 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20910 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
20911 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
20912 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
20913 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
20914 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
20916 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
20917 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
20920 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20921 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
20922 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
20923 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
20924 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
20925 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
20926 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
20927 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
20928 function. Closes ticket 16763.
20929 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
20930 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
20931 suite of other microdesc functions.
20932 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
20933 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
20934 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
20935 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
20936 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
20937 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
20938 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
20939 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
20940 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
20941 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
20943 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
20944 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
20946 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
20949 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
20950 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
20951 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
20952 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
20956 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
20957 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
20958 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
20959 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
20960 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
20961 Closes ticket 13338.
20962 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
20963 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
20964 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
20965 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
20966 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
20967 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
20970 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
20971 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
20972 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
20973 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
20974 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
20975 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
20976 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
20978 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
20979 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
20980 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
20981 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
20982 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
20983 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
20984 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
20985 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
20986 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
20987 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
20988 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
20989 network before we begin.
20990 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
20991 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
20992 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
20993 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
20994 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
20995 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
20996 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
20997 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
21000 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
21001 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
21002 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
21003 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
21004 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
21005 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
21007 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
21008 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
21009 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
21011 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
21012 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
21013 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
21014 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
21015 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
21016 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
21017 Implements part of ticket 12498.
21018 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
21019 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
21020 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
21021 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
21022 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
21023 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
21024 part of ticket 12498.
21025 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
21026 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
21027 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
21028 key). Closes ticket 13642.
21030 o Major features (Hidden services):
21031 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
21032 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
21033 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
21034 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
21035 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
21037 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
21038 introduction points, which used to change the number of
21039 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
21040 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
21042 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
21043 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
21044 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
21045 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
21046 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
21047 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
21049 o Major features (performance):
21050 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
21051 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
21052 Implements ticket 16467.
21053 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
21054 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
21055 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
21056 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
21058 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
21059 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
21060 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
21061 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
21062 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
21063 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
21065 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
21066 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
21067 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
21068 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
21069 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
21070 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
21071 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
21072 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
21075 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21076 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
21077 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
21078 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
21079 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
21080 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
21081 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
21084 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
21085 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
21086 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
21087 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
21088 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
21089 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
21091 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
21092 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
21093 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
21094 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
21095 by "cypherpunks_backup".
21096 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
21097 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
21098 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
21101 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
21102 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
21103 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
21104 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
21105 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
21106 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
21107 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
21109 o Minor features (client):
21110 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
21111 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
21112 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
21114 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
21115 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
21116 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
21117 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21118 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
21119 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
21120 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
21123 o Minor features (control protocol):
21124 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
21125 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
21127 o Minor features (directory authorities):
21128 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
21129 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
21130 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
21131 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
21132 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
21134 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
21135 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21136 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21138 o Minor features (hidden services):
21139 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
21140 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
21141 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
21142 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
21145 o Minor features (portability):
21146 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
21147 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
21148 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
21150 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
21151 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
21152 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
21153 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
21155 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
21156 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
21157 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
21158 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
21160 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
21161 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
21162 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
21163 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
21164 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
21165 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
21167 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
21168 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
21169 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
21170 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21171 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
21172 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
21173 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21175 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21176 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
21177 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21179 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
21180 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
21181 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
21182 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
21184 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
21185 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
21186 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
21187 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
21189 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
21190 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
21193 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
21194 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
21195 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
21196 from "cypherpunks".
21198 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
21199 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
21200 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21201 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
21202 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
21203 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
21205 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
21206 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
21207 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21209 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
21210 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
21211 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
21213 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
21214 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
21215 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21216 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
21217 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21218 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
21219 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
21220 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
21221 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21223 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21224 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
21225 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
21226 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
21227 haven't supported that in ages.
21228 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
21229 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
21230 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
21231 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
21234 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
21235 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
21236 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
21237 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
21238 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
21239 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
21241 o Removed features:
21242 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
21243 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
21244 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
21245 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
21246 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
21247 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
21248 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
21249 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
21250 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
21251 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
21252 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
21253 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
21254 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
21255 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
21256 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
21257 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
21258 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
21261 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
21262 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
21263 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
21264 Closes ticket 15817.
21265 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
21266 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
21268 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
21269 default as a part of "make check".
21270 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
21271 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
21272 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
21273 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
21277 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
21278 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
21279 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
21280 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
21281 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
21282 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
21284 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
21285 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
21286 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
21287 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
21288 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
21289 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
21290 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
21291 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
21294 o Major bugfixes (stability):
21295 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
21296 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
21297 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
21298 by "cypherpunks_backup".
21299 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
21300 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
21301 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
21304 o Minor features (geoip):
21305 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21306 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21308 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
21309 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
21310 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
21311 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
21312 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
21313 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
21315 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21316 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
21317 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
21318 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
21321 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
21322 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
21323 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
21324 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
21325 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
21327 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
21328 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
21329 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
21330 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
21331 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
21334 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
21335 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
21336 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
21337 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
21338 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
21339 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
21340 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
21342 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
21343 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
21344 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
21345 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
21347 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21348 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
21349 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
21350 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
21351 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
21352 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
21355 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
21356 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
21357 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
21360 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
21361 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
21362 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
21363 authorities should upgrade.
21365 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
21366 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
21367 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
21368 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
21371 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
21372 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
21373 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
21376 o Minor features (geoip):
21377 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21378 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21382 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
21383 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
21384 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
21385 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
21386 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
21387 the hidden services subsystem.
21389 o New system requirements:
21390 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
21391 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
21394 o Major features (controller):
21395 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
21396 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
21398 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
21399 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
21400 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
21401 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
21402 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
21403 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
21404 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
21406 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21407 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
21408 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
21409 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
21412 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
21413 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
21414 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
21415 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
21416 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
21418 o Minor features (command-line interface):
21419 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
21420 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
21421 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
21422 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
21424 o Minor features (controller):
21425 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
21426 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
21427 present. Implements ticket 14840.
21428 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
21429 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
21430 Closes ticket 14845.
21431 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
21432 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
21433 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
21435 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
21436 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
21437 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
21438 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
21440 o Minor features (geoip):
21441 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21442 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21445 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
21446 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
21447 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
21448 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
21449 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
21450 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
21451 Closes ticket 15745.
21453 o Minor features (logging):
21454 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
21455 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
21458 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
21459 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
21460 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
21461 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
21463 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
21464 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
21465 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
21466 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
21467 Resolves ticket 15435.
21469 o Minor features (testing):
21470 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
21471 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
21472 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
21473 files. Closes ticket 15180.
21474 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
21475 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
21476 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
21477 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
21478 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
21479 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
21480 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
21481 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
21482 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
21483 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
21484 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
21485 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
21487 o Minor bugfixes (build):
21488 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
21489 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
21492 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
21493 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
21494 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
21496 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
21497 stderr, not stdout.
21499 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
21500 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
21501 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
21502 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
21503 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
21504 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
21505 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
21506 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
21508 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
21509 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
21510 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
21512 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
21513 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
21514 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
21517 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
21518 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
21519 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
21521 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
21522 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21524 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
21525 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
21526 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
21527 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
21530 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
21531 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
21532 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
21533 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
21534 recent enough Clang.
21536 o Minor bugfixes (network):
21537 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
21538 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
21539 unsuitable for public communications.
21541 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
21542 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
21543 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
21544 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
21545 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
21546 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
21548 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
21549 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
21550 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
21551 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
21552 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
21553 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
21554 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
21555 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
21557 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
21558 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
21559 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
21561 - Set the severity correctly when testing
21562 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
21563 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
21564 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
21565 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
21567 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21568 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
21569 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
21571 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
21572 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
21573 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
21574 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
21575 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
21578 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
21579 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
21581 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
21582 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
21583 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
21584 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
21585 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
21588 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
21589 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
21590 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
21591 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
21592 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
21593 Closes ticket 14922.
21595 o Removed features:
21596 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
21597 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
21598 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
21599 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
21600 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
21601 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
21602 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
21603 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
21604 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
21605 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
21606 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
21609 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
21610 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
21611 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
21612 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
21613 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
21615 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
21616 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
21618 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
21619 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
21620 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
21621 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
21622 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
21623 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
21624 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
21626 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
21627 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
21628 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
21629 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
21630 Resolves ticket 15515.
21633 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
21634 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
21635 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
21636 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
21637 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
21639 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
21640 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
21642 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
21643 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
21644 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
21645 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
21646 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
21647 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
21648 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
21650 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
21651 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
21652 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
21653 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
21654 Resolves ticket 15515.
21657 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
21658 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
21659 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
21660 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
21661 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
21663 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
21664 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
21666 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
21667 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
21668 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
21669 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
21670 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
21671 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
21672 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
21674 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
21675 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
21676 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
21677 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
21678 Resolves ticket 15515.
21679 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
21680 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
21681 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
21685 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
21686 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
21688 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
21689 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
21690 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
21691 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
21692 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
21693 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
21694 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
21695 bugs should be addressed.
21697 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
21698 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
21699 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
21700 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
21702 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
21703 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
21704 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
21706 o Major bugfixes (client):
21707 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
21708 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
21711 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
21712 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
21713 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
21714 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
21715 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
21716 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21718 o Major bugfixes (portability):
21719 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
21720 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
21723 o Minor features (heartbeat):
21724 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
21725 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
21726 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
21727 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
21729 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21730 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
21731 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
21734 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
21735 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
21737 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
21738 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
21739 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
21741 o Directory authority changes:
21742 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
21743 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
21744 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
21745 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
21746 closes ticket 14487.
21748 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
21749 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
21750 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
21753 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
21754 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
21755 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
21756 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
21757 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
21758 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
21759 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
21760 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21762 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
21763 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
21764 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
21765 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
21767 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21768 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
21769 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
21770 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
21772 o Minor features (controller):
21773 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
21774 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
21775 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
21777 o Minor features (geoip):
21778 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21779 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21782 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
21783 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
21784 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
21785 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
21786 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
21787 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21789 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
21790 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
21791 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
21792 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
21794 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
21795 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
21796 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
21797 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
21798 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
21799 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
21800 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
21801 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21803 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
21804 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
21805 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
21807 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
21808 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
21809 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
21810 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
21811 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
21815 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
21816 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
21817 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
21820 o Directory authority changes:
21821 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
21822 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
21823 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
21824 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
21825 closes ticket 14487.
21827 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
21828 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
21829 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
21830 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
21832 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
21833 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
21834 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
21835 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
21836 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
21837 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
21838 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
21839 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21841 o Minor features (geoip):
21842 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21843 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21846 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
21847 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
21848 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
21849 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
21850 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
21852 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
21853 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
21854 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
21857 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
21858 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
21859 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
21860 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
21861 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
21862 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
21863 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
21864 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21866 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
21867 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
21868 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
21871 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21872 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
21873 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
21875 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
21876 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
21877 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
21878 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
21879 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
21881 o Minor features (controller):
21882 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
21883 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
21884 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
21886 o Minor features (geoip):
21887 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21888 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21891 o Minor features (logs):
21892 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
21895 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
21896 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
21897 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
21898 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21899 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
21900 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
21901 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
21902 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
21903 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
21905 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
21906 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
21908 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
21911 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
21912 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
21913 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
21915 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
21916 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
21917 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
21918 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
21919 from "cypherpunks".
21920 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
21921 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
21924 o Directory authority IP change:
21925 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
21926 closes ticket 14487.
21929 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
21930 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
21931 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
21935 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
21936 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
21937 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
21938 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
21939 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
21940 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
21942 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
21943 the next version will be a release candidate.
21945 o Deprecated versions:
21946 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
21947 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
21949 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
21950 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
21951 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
21952 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
21953 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
21954 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
21956 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
21957 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
21958 Implements ticket 11485.
21960 o Major features (changed defaults):
21961 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
21962 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
21963 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
21964 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
21965 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
21966 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
21968 o Major features (directory system):
21969 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
21970 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
21971 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
21972 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
21973 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
21974 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
21975 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
21976 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
21977 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
21978 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
21979 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
21980 227. Closes ticket 10395.
21982 o Major features (guards):
21983 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
21984 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
21985 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
21986 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
21987 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
21989 o Major features (performance):
21990 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
21991 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
21992 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
21993 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
21994 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
21995 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
21996 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
21997 Implements ticket 9682.
21999 o Major features (relay):
22000 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
22001 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
22002 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
22004 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
22005 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
22006 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
22007 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
22009 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
22010 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
22011 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
22012 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
22013 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
22014 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
22015 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
22017 o Minor features (build):
22018 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
22019 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
22020 Resolves ticket 13037.
22022 o Minor features (controller):
22023 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
22024 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
22026 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
22027 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
22028 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
22029 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
22030 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
22031 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
22033 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
22034 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
22035 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
22036 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
22037 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
22038 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
22039 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
22040 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
22041 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
22042 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
22044 o Minor features (geoip):
22045 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
22046 GeoLite2 Country database.
22048 o Minor features (guard nodes):
22049 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
22050 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
22051 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
22053 o Minor features (hidden service):
22054 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
22055 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
22056 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
22057 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
22058 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
22059 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
22060 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
22061 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
22063 o Minor features (interface):
22064 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
22065 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
22066 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
22068 o Minor features (logging):
22069 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
22070 Resolves ticket 6852.
22071 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
22072 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
22073 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
22075 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
22076 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
22078 o Minor features (stability):
22079 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
22080 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
22083 o Minor features (systemd):
22084 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
22085 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
22087 o Minor features (testing networks):
22088 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
22089 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
22090 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
22091 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
22092 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
22093 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
22095 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
22096 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
22097 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
22098 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
22099 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
22101 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
22102 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
22103 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
22104 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
22105 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
22107 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
22108 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
22109 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
22110 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
22111 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
22112 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
22113 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
22114 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22116 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
22117 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
22118 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
22119 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22120 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
22121 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22122 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
22123 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
22125 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
22126 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
22127 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
22130 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
22131 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
22132 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
22133 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
22134 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
22136 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
22137 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
22138 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
22139 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
22140 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22142 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
22143 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
22144 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
22145 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
22146 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
22147 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
22148 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
22149 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
22150 Addresses ticket 14188.
22151 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
22152 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
22153 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
22154 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
22155 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
22156 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
22157 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
22158 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
22159 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22161 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22162 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
22163 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
22164 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
22165 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
22166 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22167 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
22168 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22170 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
22171 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
22172 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
22173 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
22174 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
22175 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
22176 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
22177 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22178 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
22179 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22180 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
22181 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
22182 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22184 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
22185 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
22186 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
22187 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
22188 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
22189 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
22190 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
22191 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
22192 state, and key files.
22193 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
22194 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
22197 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
22198 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
22199 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
22200 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
22201 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
22202 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
22203 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
22204 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22205 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
22206 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
22207 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22209 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
22210 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
22211 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22212 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
22214 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
22215 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
22217 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
22218 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
22219 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
22220 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
22221 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
22222 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
22224 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
22225 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
22226 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
22227 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22228 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
22229 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
22230 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22231 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
22232 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
22233 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22235 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
22236 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
22237 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
22239 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
22240 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
22242 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
22243 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
22244 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
22245 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
22246 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22248 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
22249 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
22250 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
22251 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
22254 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
22255 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
22256 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
22259 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
22260 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
22261 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
22263 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
22264 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
22265 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
22266 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
22267 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
22268 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
22269 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
22271 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
22272 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
22275 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
22276 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
22277 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
22279 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
22280 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
22281 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
22284 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22285 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
22286 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
22287 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
22288 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
22289 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
22290 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
22291 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
22292 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
22294 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
22295 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
22297 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
22301 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
22302 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
22303 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
22304 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
22305 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
22306 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
22308 o Downgraded warnings:
22309 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
22310 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
22312 o Removed features:
22313 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
22314 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
22315 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
22316 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
22317 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
22321 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
22322 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22323 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
22324 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
22325 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
22326 (existing behavior).
22327 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
22328 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
22329 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
22330 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
22331 Closes ticket 14107.
22332 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
22333 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
22334 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
22335 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
22337 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
22338 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
22339 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22342 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
22343 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
22344 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
22345 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
22346 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
22347 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
22349 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
22350 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
22351 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
22352 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
22354 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
22355 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
22356 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
22357 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
22358 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
22359 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
22361 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
22362 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
22363 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
22364 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
22365 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
22366 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
22367 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
22370 o Major features (hidden services):
22371 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
22372 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
22373 Closes ticket 13667.
22374 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
22375 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
22376 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
22377 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
22378 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
22379 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
22380 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
22381 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
22382 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
22383 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
22384 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
22386 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
22387 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
22388 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
22389 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
22390 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
22391 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
22394 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
22395 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
22396 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
22397 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
22398 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
22399 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
22401 o Directory authority changes:
22402 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
22403 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
22404 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
22406 o Major removed features:
22407 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
22408 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
22409 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
22410 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
22412 o Minor features (client):
22413 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
22414 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
22415 Resolves ticket 13315.
22417 o Minor features (controller):
22418 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
22419 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
22422 o Minor features (geoip):
22423 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
22426 o Minor features (hidden services):
22427 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
22428 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
22429 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
22430 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
22431 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
22432 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
22434 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
22435 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
22436 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
22438 o Minor features (systemd):
22439 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
22440 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
22441 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
22442 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
22444 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
22445 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
22446 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
22447 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
22448 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
22451 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
22452 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
22453 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
22454 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
22455 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
22457 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
22458 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
22459 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
22462 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
22463 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
22464 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
22465 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
22466 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
22468 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
22469 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
22470 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22472 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
22473 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
22474 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
22475 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
22476 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
22478 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
22479 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
22482 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
22483 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
22484 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
22485 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
22486 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
22487 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
22488 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
22489 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
22490 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
22491 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
22492 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
22493 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
22494 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
22495 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
22498 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
22499 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
22500 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
22501 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
22502 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
22503 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
22505 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
22506 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
22507 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
22508 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
22510 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
22511 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
22513 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
22514 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
22515 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
22516 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
22519 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
22520 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
22521 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
22522 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
22523 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
22524 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
22526 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
22527 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
22528 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
22529 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
22530 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22531 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
22532 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
22533 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
22534 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
22535 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
22536 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
22537 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
22538 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
22539 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
22540 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
22541 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
22542 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
22543 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
22544 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
22545 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22546 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
22547 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
22548 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
22549 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
22550 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
22551 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
22552 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
22553 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22554 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
22555 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
22556 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
22557 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
22559 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
22560 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
22561 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
22562 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
22563 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22565 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22566 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
22567 with a function instead.
22568 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
22569 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
22570 Closes ticket 13172.
22571 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
22572 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
22573 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
22574 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
22575 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
22576 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
22577 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
22578 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
22579 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
22580 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
22581 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
22582 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
22586 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
22587 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
22588 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
22589 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
22590 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
22591 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
22592 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
22593 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
22594 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
22595 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
22596 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
22597 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
22600 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
22601 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
22602 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
22603 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
22604 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
22605 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
22607 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
22611 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
22612 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
22613 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
22614 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
22615 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
22616 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
22617 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
22618 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
22619 of introducing infinite download loops.
22621 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
22622 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
22623 with 0.2.5.x for now.
22625 o New compiler and system requirements:
22626 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
22627 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
22628 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
22629 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
22631 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
22632 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
22633 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
22634 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
22635 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
22636 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
22637 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
22638 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
22639 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
22641 o Removed platform support:
22642 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
22643 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
22644 Closes ticket 11446.
22646 o Major features (bridges):
22647 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
22648 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
22649 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
22652 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
22653 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
22654 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
22655 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
22658 o Major features (directory system):
22659 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
22660 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
22661 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
22662 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
22664 o Major features (sample torrc):
22665 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
22666 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
22667 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
22668 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
22669 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
22670 generally useful "sample torrc".
22672 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
22673 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
22674 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22676 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
22677 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
22678 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
22679 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
22680 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
22682 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
22683 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
22684 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
22685 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
22687 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
22688 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
22689 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
22690 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
22691 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
22692 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
22695 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
22696 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
22697 document. Implements feature 10427.
22699 o Minor features (client):
22700 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
22701 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
22702 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
22703 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
22705 o Minor features (directory authorities):
22706 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
22707 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
22708 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
22709 argument more than once.
22710 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
22711 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
22712 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
22713 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
22714 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
22715 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
22717 o Minor features (logging):
22718 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
22719 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
22720 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
22721 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
22722 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
22723 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
22724 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
22725 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
22726 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
22728 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
22729 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
22730 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
22731 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
22733 o Minor features (relay):
22734 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
22735 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
22736 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
22738 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
22739 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
22740 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
22741 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
22743 o Minor features (testing networks):
22744 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
22745 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
22746 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
22747 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
22748 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
22751 o Minor features (validation):
22752 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
22753 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
22754 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
22755 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
22756 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
22757 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
22758 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
22759 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
22761 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
22762 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
22763 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
22764 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
22766 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
22767 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
22768 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
22769 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
22771 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
22772 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
22773 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
22775 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
22776 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
22777 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
22779 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
22780 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22781 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
22782 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
22783 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
22784 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
22785 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
22787 o Minor bugfixes (client):
22788 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
22789 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
22790 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
22791 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
22792 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22793 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
22794 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
22795 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
22797 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
22798 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
22799 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
22800 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
22801 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
22803 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
22804 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
22805 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
22807 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22808 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
22809 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
22810 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
22811 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
22813 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
22814 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
22815 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
22816 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22817 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
22818 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
22819 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22820 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
22821 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
22822 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
22823 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
22826 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
22827 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
22828 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
22829 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
22830 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
22832 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
22833 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
22834 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
22835 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
22836 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
22839 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
22840 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
22841 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
22842 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
22843 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
22844 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
22846 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
22847 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
22848 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
22849 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
22851 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
22852 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
22853 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
22854 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
22856 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
22857 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
22858 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
22859 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
22862 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
22863 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
22864 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
22867 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
22868 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
22869 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
22870 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
22871 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
22874 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22875 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
22876 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
22878 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
22879 Resolves ticket 12205.
22880 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
22881 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
22882 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
22883 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
22885 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
22886 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
22887 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
22889 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
22890 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
22892 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
22893 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
22894 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
22895 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
22896 or_options_t structure.
22899 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
22900 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
22901 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
22902 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
22905 o Removed features:
22906 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
22907 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
22908 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
22909 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
22910 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
22911 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
22912 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
22913 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
22914 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
22916 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
22917 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
22919 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
22920 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
22921 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
22922 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
22923 anymore, and ignore it.
22926 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
22927 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
22928 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
22929 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
22930 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
22931 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
22932 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
22933 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
22934 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
22935 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
22936 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
22937 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
22939 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
22940 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
22941 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
22943 o Distribution (systemd):
22944 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
22945 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
22946 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
22947 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
22948 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
22950 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
22951 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
22953 o Removed features (directory authorities):
22954 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
22955 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
22956 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
22957 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
22958 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
22959 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
22960 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
22961 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
22962 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
22964 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
22965 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
22966 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
22967 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
22970 o Testing (test-network.sh):
22971 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
22972 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
22974 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
22976 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
22977 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
22978 Partially implements ticket 13161.
22981 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
22982 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
22984 It adds several new security features, including improved
22985 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
22986 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
22987 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
22988 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
22989 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
22990 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
22991 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
22992 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
22993 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
22994 and features mentioned below.
22996 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
22997 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
22999 o Deprecated versions:
23000 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
23001 attention for some while.
23004 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
23005 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
23006 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
23007 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
23008 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
23009 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
23011 o Major security fixes:
23012 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
23013 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
23014 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
23016 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
23017 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
23018 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
23019 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
23022 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
23023 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
23024 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
23025 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23027 o Compilation fixes:
23028 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
23029 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
23030 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
23032 o Downgraded warnings:
23033 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
23034 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
23037 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
23038 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
23039 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
23040 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
23041 (which does affect Tor).
23043 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
23044 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
23045 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
23046 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
23048 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
23049 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
23050 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
23051 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
23054 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
23055 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
23056 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
23057 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
23058 the directory authorities.
23061 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
23062 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
23063 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
23064 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
23065 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
23066 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
23067 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
23068 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
23069 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
23070 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
23071 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
23072 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23074 o Directory authority changes:
23075 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
23078 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
23079 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
23080 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
23081 the directory authorities.
23084 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
23085 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
23086 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
23087 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
23088 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
23089 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
23090 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
23091 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
23092 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
23093 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
23094 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
23095 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23097 o Directory authority changes:
23098 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
23100 o Minor features (geoip):
23101 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23105 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
23106 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
23107 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
23108 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
23109 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
23111 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
23112 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
23113 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
23114 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
23115 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
23116 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
23117 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
23118 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
23119 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
23120 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
23121 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
23122 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
23123 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
23124 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23125 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
23126 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
23128 o Major bugfixes (relay):
23129 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
23130 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
23131 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
23132 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
23133 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
23134 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
23135 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
23137 o Minor features (bridge):
23138 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
23139 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
23141 o Minor features (geoip):
23142 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23145 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
23146 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
23147 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
23148 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
23149 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
23150 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
23151 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23152 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
23153 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
23154 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
23155 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
23156 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
23157 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
23158 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
23159 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
23161 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
23162 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
23163 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
23164 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
23165 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
23167 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
23168 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
23169 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23170 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
23171 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
23174 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
23175 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
23176 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
23177 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
23178 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
23179 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
23180 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
23181 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
23182 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
23183 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
23184 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
23187 o Distribution (systemd):
23188 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
23189 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
23190 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
23191 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
23192 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
23193 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
23194 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
23195 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
23196 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
23200 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
23201 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
23203 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
23207 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
23208 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
23209 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
23210 us closer to a release candidate.
23212 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
23213 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
23214 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
23215 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
23216 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
23218 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
23219 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
23220 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
23221 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
23222 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
23223 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
23224 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
23225 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
23226 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
23230 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
23231 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
23232 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
23233 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
23234 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
23235 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
23236 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
23237 to build circuits".
23240 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
23241 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
23242 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
23243 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
23244 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
23245 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
23246 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
23247 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23249 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
23251 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
23252 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
23253 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
23254 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
23255 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
23256 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
23257 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
23258 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
23259 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
23260 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23263 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
23264 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
23265 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
23266 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
23268 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
23269 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
23270 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
23273 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
23274 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
23275 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
23276 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
23279 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
23280 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
23281 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
23282 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
23283 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
23284 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
23285 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
23286 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
23287 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
23288 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
23291 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
23292 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
23293 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
23294 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
23295 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
23296 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
23297 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
23298 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
23302 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
23303 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
23304 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
23305 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
23306 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
23307 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
23308 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
23309 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
23310 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23311 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
23312 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
23313 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
23314 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
23317 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23321 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
23322 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
23323 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
23324 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
23325 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
23326 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
23329 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
23330 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
23331 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
23332 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
23333 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
23334 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
23335 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
23336 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
23337 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
23338 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
23339 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
23340 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
23341 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23343 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
23344 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
23345 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
23346 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
23349 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
23350 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
23351 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
23353 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
23354 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
23355 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
23356 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
23357 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
23358 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
23359 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
23360 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
23361 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
23362 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
23363 router's identity is not forgeable.
23365 o Major bugfixes (relay):
23366 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
23367 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
23368 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
23369 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
23370 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
23371 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
23372 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
23373 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
23374 bugfix on every version of Tor.
23376 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
23377 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
23378 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
23379 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
23382 o Minor features (diagnostic):
23383 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
23384 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
23385 help diagnose bug 7164.
23386 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
23387 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
23388 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
23389 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
23390 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
23392 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
23393 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
23394 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
23395 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
23396 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
23397 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
23398 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
23400 o Minor features (security, memory management):
23401 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
23402 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
23403 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
23404 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
23405 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
23406 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
23408 o Minor features (security):
23409 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
23410 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
23411 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
23412 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
23414 o Minor features (build):
23415 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
23416 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
23417 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
23419 o Minor features (other):
23420 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23423 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
23424 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
23425 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
23426 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
23427 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23429 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
23430 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
23431 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
23432 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
23433 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
23434 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
23435 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
23436 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
23437 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
23438 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
23439 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
23440 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
23442 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
23443 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
23444 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
23445 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
23446 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
23447 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
23448 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
23449 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
23450 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
23451 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
23452 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23453 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
23454 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
23455 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
23456 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
23457 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
23458 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
23459 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
23462 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
23463 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
23464 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
23465 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
23466 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
23467 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
23468 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
23470 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
23471 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
23472 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23473 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
23474 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23475 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
23476 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23477 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
23478 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
23480 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
23481 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
23483 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
23484 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
23486 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
23487 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
23488 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
23489 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
23490 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
23491 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23492 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
23493 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
23494 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
23496 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
23497 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
23498 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
23499 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
23500 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
23501 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23502 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
23503 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
23504 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23505 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
23506 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
23507 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23508 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
23509 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
23510 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
23511 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
23512 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
23513 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23515 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
23516 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
23517 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
23518 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
23519 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
23520 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23521 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
23522 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
23523 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
23526 o Minor bugfixes (client):
23527 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
23528 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
23529 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
23530 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23532 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
23533 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
23534 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
23535 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
23537 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
23538 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
23539 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
23540 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
23541 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
23542 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
23543 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
23544 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
23546 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
23547 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
23548 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
23549 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
23552 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
23553 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
23554 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
23555 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
23556 versions. Found by "skruffy".
23557 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
23558 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
23559 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
23562 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
23563 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
23564 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
23565 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
23568 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
23569 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
23570 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
23571 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
23573 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
23574 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
23575 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
23577 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
23578 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
23579 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
23581 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
23582 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
23583 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23584 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
23585 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
23589 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
23590 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
23591 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
23592 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
23595 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
23596 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
23597 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
23598 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
23600 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
23601 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
23603 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
23604 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
23605 caches don't get confused.
23608 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
23609 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
23610 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
23611 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
23612 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
23615 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
23616 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
23617 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
23618 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
23619 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
23620 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
23624 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
23625 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
23626 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
23627 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
23628 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
23629 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
23630 of RAM, and several others.
23632 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23633 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
23634 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
23635 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
23636 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
23638 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
23639 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
23640 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
23641 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
23644 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23645 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
23646 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
23647 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
23648 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
23649 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
23650 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23651 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
23652 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
23653 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
23654 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
23655 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
23656 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
23657 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
23658 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
23659 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
23660 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
23661 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
23662 Resolves ticket 11438.
23664 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
23665 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
23666 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
23667 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
23668 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
23669 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23671 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23672 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
23673 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
23675 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23676 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
23677 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23679 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23680 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
23681 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
23682 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23684 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23685 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
23686 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
23688 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
23689 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
23690 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
23693 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
23694 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
23695 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
23696 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
23699 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23700 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
23701 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
23702 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
23704 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23705 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
23706 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
23707 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
23709 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23710 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
23711 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
23715 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
23716 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
23717 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
23718 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
23719 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
23720 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
23721 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
23722 the Linux sandbox code.
23724 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
23725 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
23726 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
23728 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
23729 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
23731 o Major features (security):
23732 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
23733 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
23734 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
23735 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
23736 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
23737 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
23738 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
23739 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
23741 o Major features (relay performance):
23742 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
23743 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
23744 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
23745 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
23746 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
23747 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
23748 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
23749 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
23750 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
23751 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
23753 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
23754 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
23755 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
23756 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
23757 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
23758 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
23759 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
23761 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
23762 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
23764 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
23765 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
23766 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
23767 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
23768 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
23769 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
23770 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23771 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
23772 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
23773 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
23774 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
23775 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
23776 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
23777 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
23778 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
23779 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
23780 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
23781 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
23782 Resolves ticket 11438.
23784 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
23785 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
23786 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
23787 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23789 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
23790 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
23791 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
23792 10267; patch from "yurivict".
23793 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
23794 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
23795 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
23796 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
23797 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
23798 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
23800 o Minor features (security):
23801 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
23802 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
23803 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
23804 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
23807 o Minor features (log verbosity):
23808 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
23809 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
23810 Resolves ticket 5286.
23811 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
23812 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
23813 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
23814 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
23815 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
23816 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
23817 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
23818 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
23819 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
23821 o Minor features (relay):
23822 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
23823 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
23824 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
23826 o Minor features (controller):
23827 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
23828 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
23830 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
23831 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
23832 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
23834 o Minor features (bridge client):
23835 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
23836 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
23837 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
23839 o Minor features (diagnostic):
23840 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
23841 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
23842 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
23843 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
23844 still referenced by a live node_t object.
23846 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
23847 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
23848 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
23849 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
23851 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
23852 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
23853 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
23854 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
23857 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
23858 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
23859 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23861 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
23862 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
23863 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
23864 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23865 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
23866 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
23867 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23869 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
23870 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
23871 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
23872 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23873 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
23874 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
23875 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23876 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
23877 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
23878 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
23879 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23880 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
23881 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
23884 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
23885 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
23886 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
23887 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
23888 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
23890 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
23891 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
23892 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
23895 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
23896 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
23897 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
23899 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
23900 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
23901 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23903 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
23904 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
23905 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
23906 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
23908 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
23909 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
23910 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23911 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
23912 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
23914 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
23915 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
23916 early. Fixes bug 10081.
23918 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
23919 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
23920 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
23921 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
23922 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23923 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
23924 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
23925 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
23927 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
23928 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
23929 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
23930 should never have affected anyone in practice.
23932 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
23933 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
23934 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23936 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
23937 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
23938 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
23939 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
23940 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
23941 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
23942 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
23943 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
23944 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
23945 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
23946 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
23947 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
23948 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
23949 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
23951 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
23952 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
23953 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
23954 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
23955 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
23956 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
23957 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
23958 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
23962 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
23963 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
23964 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
23965 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23966 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
23967 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23968 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
23969 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
23971 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
23973 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23974 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
23975 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
23976 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
23977 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
23980 o Deprecated versions:
23981 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
23982 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
23983 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
23984 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
23987 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
23988 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
23989 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
23990 Patch from Dana Koch.
23993 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
23994 Resolves ticket 11070.
23997 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
23998 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
23999 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
24000 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
24001 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
24004 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
24005 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
24007 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
24008 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
24009 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
24010 streams attached to each circuit.
24012 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
24013 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
24014 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
24015 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
24016 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
24017 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
24018 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
24019 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
24020 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
24021 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
24022 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
24023 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
24024 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
24026 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
24027 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
24028 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
24030 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
24031 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
24032 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
24033 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
24034 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
24035 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
24036 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
24037 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
24038 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
24040 o Minor features (other):
24041 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
24042 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
24043 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
24044 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
24045 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
24046 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
24047 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
24048 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
24049 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
24052 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
24053 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
24054 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
24055 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
24056 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
24057 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
24058 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
24059 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
24061 o Minor bugfixes (client):
24062 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
24063 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
24064 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
24065 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24066 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
24067 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
24068 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
24070 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
24071 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
24072 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
24073 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
24074 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
24075 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
24076 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
24077 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
24078 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
24079 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
24080 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
24081 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24083 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
24084 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
24085 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
24086 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
24087 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
24088 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
24089 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
24090 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
24091 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
24092 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
24093 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
24094 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
24095 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
24096 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
24098 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
24099 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
24101 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
24102 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
24103 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
24104 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
24105 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
24106 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
24107 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
24108 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
24109 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
24110 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
24111 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
24112 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
24113 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
24114 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
24116 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
24117 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
24118 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
24119 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
24122 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
24123 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
24124 the rest of bug 10841.
24127 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
24128 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
24129 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
24130 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
24131 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
24132 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
24133 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
24134 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
24135 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
24136 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
24137 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
24138 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24139 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
24140 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
24141 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24143 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24144 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
24145 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
24147 o Test infrastructure:
24148 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
24149 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
24150 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
24151 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
24154 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
24155 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
24156 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
24157 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
24159 o Major features (client security):
24160 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
24161 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
24162 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
24163 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
24164 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
24165 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
24168 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
24169 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
24170 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
24171 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24173 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24174 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
24175 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
24176 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
24177 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
24180 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
24181 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
24183 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
24184 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
24185 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
24186 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
24187 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
24188 GeoLite2 Country database.
24191 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
24192 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
24193 bugfix on every released Tor.
24194 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
24195 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
24196 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
24197 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24198 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
24199 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
24200 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
24201 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
24202 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
24203 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
24204 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
24205 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
24206 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24207 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
24208 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
24210 o Documentation fixes:
24211 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
24212 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
24215 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
24216 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
24217 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
24218 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
24219 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
24220 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
24221 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
24222 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
24224 o Major features (client security):
24225 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
24226 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
24227 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
24228 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
24229 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
24230 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
24231 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
24232 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
24233 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
24234 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
24235 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
24236 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
24238 o Major features (bridges):
24239 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
24240 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
24241 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
24242 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
24243 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
24244 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
24245 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
24246 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
24249 o Major features (other):
24250 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
24251 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
24252 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
24253 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
24254 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
24255 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
24256 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
24257 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
24258 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
24259 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
24260 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
24261 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
24264 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
24265 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
24266 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
24267 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
24268 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
24269 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
24270 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24272 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
24273 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
24274 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
24275 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
24276 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
24277 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
24278 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
24279 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
24280 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
24282 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
24283 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24284 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
24285 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
24286 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
24287 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
24289 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24290 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
24291 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
24292 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
24293 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
24294 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
24297 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
24298 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
24299 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
24300 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
24301 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
24302 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
24303 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
24305 o Minor features (security):
24306 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
24307 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
24310 o Minor features (config options and command line):
24311 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
24312 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
24313 Implements ticket 10060.
24314 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
24315 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
24316 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
24318 o Minor features (controller):
24319 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
24320 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
24321 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
24322 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
24323 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
24326 o Minor features (build):
24327 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
24328 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
24329 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
24330 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
24331 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
24332 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
24333 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
24335 o Minor features (testing):
24336 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
24337 the unit test scripts.
24338 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
24339 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
24340 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
24341 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
24343 o Minor features (log messages):
24344 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
24345 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
24346 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
24347 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
24348 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
24349 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
24350 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
24351 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
24352 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
24353 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
24355 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24356 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
24357 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
24358 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
24359 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
24360 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
24361 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
24362 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
24363 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
24364 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24366 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
24367 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
24368 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
24369 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
24372 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
24373 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
24374 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
24375 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
24376 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24378 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
24379 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
24380 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
24381 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
24382 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
24383 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
24384 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
24386 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
24387 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
24388 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
24389 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
24390 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
24391 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
24392 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24393 Reported by "mr-4".
24394 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
24395 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
24396 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
24397 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
24399 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
24400 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
24401 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
24402 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
24403 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
24404 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
24405 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
24406 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
24407 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
24408 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
24409 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
24411 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
24412 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
24413 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
24414 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
24415 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
24416 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
24417 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
24418 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
24419 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
24420 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
24422 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
24423 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
24424 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
24425 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
24428 o Minor bugfixes (build):
24429 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
24430 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
24431 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
24432 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
24433 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
24435 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
24436 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
24438 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
24439 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
24440 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
24441 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24443 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
24444 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
24445 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
24446 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
24447 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
24448 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
24449 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
24450 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
24451 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
24452 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
24453 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
24454 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
24455 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
24456 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
24458 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
24459 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
24460 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24461 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
24462 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
24463 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
24465 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24466 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
24467 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24468 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
24469 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
24470 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
24471 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
24472 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
24473 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
24474 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24475 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
24476 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
24478 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24479 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
24480 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
24481 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
24482 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
24483 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24484 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
24485 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
24486 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
24487 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
24488 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
24489 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
24490 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
24491 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
24492 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
24493 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
24496 o Removed code and features:
24497 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
24498 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
24499 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
24500 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
24501 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
24502 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
24504 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
24505 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
24506 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
24507 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
24508 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
24509 part of a fix for bug 10841.
24511 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24512 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
24513 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
24514 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
24515 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
24516 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
24517 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
24518 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
24519 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
24520 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
24521 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
24524 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
24525 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
24526 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
24527 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
24528 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
24530 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24531 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
24532 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
24533 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
24534 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
24535 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
24536 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
24539 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
24540 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
24541 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
24544 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
24545 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
24546 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
24547 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
24548 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
24549 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
24550 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
24552 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
24553 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
24556 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
24557 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
24558 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
24559 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
24560 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
24561 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
24562 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
24563 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
24565 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
24566 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24567 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
24568 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
24569 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
24570 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
24573 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
24574 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24575 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
24576 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
24577 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
24580 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
24581 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
24582 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
24583 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
24584 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
24585 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
24586 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
24587 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
24589 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
24590 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
24591 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
24592 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
24593 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
24594 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
24595 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
24596 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
24597 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
24598 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
24599 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
24600 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
24601 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
24602 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
24603 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
24604 security, and privacy fixes.
24607 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
24608 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
24609 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
24610 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
24613 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
24614 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
24615 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
24616 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
24617 them to solve bug 6033.)
24620 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
24621 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
24622 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
24623 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
24624 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
24625 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24626 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
24627 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
24629 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
24630 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
24631 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
24632 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
24634 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
24635 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
24636 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24637 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
24638 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
24639 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
24640 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
24641 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
24642 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
24643 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24644 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
24645 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
24647 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
24648 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
24649 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
24650 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
24651 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
24652 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24653 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
24654 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
24655 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
24656 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
24657 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
24658 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
24659 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
24660 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
24661 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
24662 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
24665 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
24666 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
24667 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
24668 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
24669 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
24670 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
24671 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
24672 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
24673 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
24674 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
24675 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
24676 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
24677 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
24678 Implements part of proposal 222.
24680 o Minor features (other):
24681 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
24682 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
24683 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
24684 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
24685 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
24686 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
24687 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
24688 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
24689 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24691 o Documentation fixes:
24692 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
24693 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
24694 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
24695 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
24696 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
24697 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
24700 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
24701 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
24702 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
24703 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
24704 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
24705 release of the new branch.
24707 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
24708 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
24709 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
24711 o Major features (security):
24712 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
24713 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
24714 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
24715 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
24716 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
24717 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
24718 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
24719 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
24720 Google Summer of Code.
24721 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
24722 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
24723 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
24724 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
24725 them to solve bug 6033.)
24727 o Major features (other):
24728 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
24729 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
24730 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
24731 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
24732 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
24734 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
24735 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
24736 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
24737 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
24738 Implements ticket 8530.
24739 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
24740 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
24743 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
24744 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
24745 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
24746 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
24747 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
24748 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24749 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
24750 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
24751 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24752 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
24753 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
24754 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
24755 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
24758 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
24759 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
24760 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
24761 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
24762 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
24763 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
24764 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
24765 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
24766 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
24767 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
24771 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
24772 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
24773 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
24774 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
24775 invoking the other functions it calls.
24776 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
24777 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
24778 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
24779 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
24781 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
24782 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
24783 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
24784 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
24785 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
24786 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
24787 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
24788 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
24789 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
24790 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
24791 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
24792 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
24793 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
24794 Implements part of proposal 222.
24796 o Minor features (config options):
24797 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
24798 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
24799 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
24800 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
24801 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
24802 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
24803 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
24804 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
24805 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
24806 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
24807 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
24808 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
24809 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
24810 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
24811 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
24812 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
24813 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
24816 o Minor features (build):
24817 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
24818 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
24819 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
24820 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
24821 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
24824 o Minor features (other):
24825 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
24826 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
24827 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
24828 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
24829 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
24830 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
24831 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
24832 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
24833 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
24834 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
24835 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
24836 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
24837 Closes ticket 8109.
24838 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24841 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
24842 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
24843 bugfix on every released Tor.
24844 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
24845 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
24846 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
24847 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
24848 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
24849 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
24851 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
24852 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
24853 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
24854 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24855 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
24856 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
24857 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
24858 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
24860 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
24861 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
24862 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
24863 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
24864 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
24866 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
24867 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
24869 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
24870 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
24871 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
24873 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
24874 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
24875 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
24876 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
24877 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24879 o Minor code improvements:
24880 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
24881 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
24883 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
24884 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
24885 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
24886 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
24887 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
24889 o Removed features:
24890 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
24891 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
24892 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
24893 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
24895 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24896 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
24897 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
24898 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
24899 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
24900 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
24901 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
24902 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
24903 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
24904 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
24905 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
24906 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
24907 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
24908 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
24909 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
24910 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
24913 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
24914 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
24915 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
24916 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
24917 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
24918 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
24919 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
24922 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
24923 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
24924 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
24925 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
24926 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
24927 Implements ticket 9574.
24930 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
24931 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
24932 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
24933 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
24934 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
24935 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
24936 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
24937 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
24938 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24939 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
24940 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
24941 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
24945 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
24946 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
24947 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
24948 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
24950 o Minor fixes (config options):
24951 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
24952 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
24953 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
24954 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
24955 message is logged at notice, not at info.
24956 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
24957 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
24958 or we just won't work.)
24961 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
24962 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
24963 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
24964 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24967 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
24968 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
24969 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
24972 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
24973 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
24974 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24975 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
24976 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
24977 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
24978 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
24980 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
24981 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24982 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
24983 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
24986 - Fix an invalid memory read that occurred when a pluggable
24987 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
24988 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
24989 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
24990 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
24991 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
24992 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
24993 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
24994 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
24995 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
24996 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24997 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
24998 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
25001 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25004 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
25005 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
25006 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
25007 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
25010 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
25011 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
25012 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25015 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
25016 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
25017 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
25020 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
25021 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
25022 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
25025 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
25026 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
25027 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
25028 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
25029 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
25030 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
25032 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
25033 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
25034 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
25035 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
25036 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
25037 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
25039 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
25040 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
25041 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
25044 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
25045 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
25046 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
25047 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
25048 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
25050 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
25051 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
25052 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
25053 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
25054 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
25055 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
25056 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
25058 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
25059 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
25060 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
25062 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
25063 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
25067 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
25068 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
25069 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
25071 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
25072 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
25073 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
25074 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
25075 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
25076 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
25078 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
25079 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
25080 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
25081 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
25082 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
25083 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
25084 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
25087 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
25088 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
25089 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
25090 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
25091 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
25092 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
25093 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
25094 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
25095 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
25096 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
25097 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
25098 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25099 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
25100 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
25102 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
25103 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
25104 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
25105 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
25108 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
25109 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
25110 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
25111 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
25112 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
25113 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
25115 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
25116 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
25120 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
25121 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
25122 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
25123 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
25124 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
25125 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
25126 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25128 o Removed documentation:
25129 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
25130 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
25132 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25133 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
25134 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
25135 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
25138 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
25139 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
25140 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
25141 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
25142 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
25143 variety of other issues.
25146 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
25147 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
25148 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
25149 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
25150 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
25151 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
25152 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
25153 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
25155 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
25156 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
25157 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
25159 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
25160 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
25161 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
25162 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
25163 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
25164 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
25165 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
25167 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
25168 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
25169 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
25170 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
25171 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
25172 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
25173 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
25174 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
25175 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
25176 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
25177 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
25178 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
25179 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
25180 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
25181 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
25182 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
25183 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
25184 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
25185 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
25186 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
25187 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
25189 o Major bugfixes (other):
25190 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
25191 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
25192 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
25193 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25196 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
25197 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
25198 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
25199 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
25201 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
25202 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
25204 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25206 o Minor features (build):
25207 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
25208 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
25210 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
25211 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
25213 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
25214 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
25215 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
25218 o Minor bugfixes (build):
25219 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
25220 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
25221 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25222 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
25223 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
25224 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25225 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
25226 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
25227 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25228 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
25229 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
25230 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
25231 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
25234 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
25235 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
25236 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
25237 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
25238 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
25239 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
25240 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
25241 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
25242 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
25243 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
25244 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
25245 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
25246 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
25247 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25248 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25250 o Minor bugfixes (other):
25251 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
25252 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25253 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
25254 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
25255 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
25256 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
25257 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25258 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
25259 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
25260 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
25261 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
25262 Should help resolve bug 8235.
25263 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
25264 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
25265 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
25266 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25268 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
25269 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
25270 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
25271 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
25272 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
25273 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
25274 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
25275 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
25278 o Minor bugfixes (config):
25279 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
25280 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
25282 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
25283 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
25284 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
25285 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
25286 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
25287 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
25288 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25289 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
25290 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
25291 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
25292 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
25293 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
25294 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25295 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
25296 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
25299 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
25300 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
25301 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
25302 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
25303 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
25304 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
25305 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
25306 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
25308 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
25309 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
25310 or at least make it more diagnosable.
25311 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
25312 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
25313 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
25314 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25316 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
25317 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
25318 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
25319 the relaxed timeout log message.
25320 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
25321 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
25322 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
25324 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
25325 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
25326 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25327 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
25328 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25329 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
25330 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
25333 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
25334 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
25335 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
25336 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
25337 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
25338 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
25339 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25340 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
25341 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
25342 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
25343 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
25344 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
25345 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25346 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
25347 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
25348 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
25349 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
25351 o Documentation fixes:
25352 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
25353 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
25354 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
25355 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
25356 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
25357 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
25358 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
25359 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
25362 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
25363 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
25367 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
25368 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
25369 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
25370 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
25372 o Major features (directory authorities):
25373 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
25374 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
25375 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
25376 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
25377 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
25378 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
25379 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
25380 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
25381 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
25382 Implements ticket 8151.
25384 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
25385 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
25386 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
25387 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
25388 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
25390 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25391 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
25392 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
25393 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
25394 whether authentication information is present, causing all
25395 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
25396 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
25398 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
25399 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
25400 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
25401 bugs 1913 and 1992.
25402 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
25403 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
25404 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
25405 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
25406 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
25407 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
25408 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
25409 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
25410 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
25411 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
25412 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
25413 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
25414 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
25415 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
25416 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
25417 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
25418 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
25419 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
25422 o Minor features (portability):
25423 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
25424 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25425 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
25426 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
25427 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
25428 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
25429 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
25430 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25432 o Minor features (other):
25433 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
25434 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
25435 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
25436 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
25437 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
25438 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
25439 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
25440 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
25442 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25444 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
25445 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
25446 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
25447 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
25448 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
25449 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
25450 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
25451 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
25452 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
25453 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
25455 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
25456 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
25457 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
25458 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25460 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
25461 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
25462 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
25463 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
25464 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
25465 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
25466 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
25468 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
25469 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
25470 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
25471 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
25472 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
25474 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
25475 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
25476 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
25477 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
25479 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
25480 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
25481 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
25484 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
25485 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
25486 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
25487 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
25489 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
25490 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
25491 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
25492 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
25494 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
25495 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
25496 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
25497 this is CID 718634.
25498 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
25499 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
25500 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
25501 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
25503 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
25504 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
25505 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25506 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
25507 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
25508 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
25509 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25511 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25512 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
25516 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
25517 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
25518 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
25519 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
25520 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
25523 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
25524 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
25525 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
25526 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
25528 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
25529 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
25530 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
25534 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
25535 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
25536 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
25537 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
25538 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
25539 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
25540 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
25541 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
25542 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
25543 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
25544 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
25545 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
25546 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
25549 o Major features (relay):
25550 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
25551 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
25552 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
25553 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
25554 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
25555 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
25556 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
25558 o Major features (portability):
25559 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
25560 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
25561 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
25562 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
25563 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25566 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
25567 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
25568 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
25569 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
25570 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
25571 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
25573 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
25574 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
25575 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
25576 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
25577 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
25578 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
25579 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
25580 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
25582 o Minor features (path selection):
25583 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
25584 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
25585 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
25586 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
25587 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
25588 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
25589 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
25590 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
25591 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
25592 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
25593 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
25594 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
25595 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
25596 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
25597 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
25598 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
25599 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
25600 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
25601 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
25603 o Minor features (log messages):
25604 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
25605 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
25606 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
25607 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
25610 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
25611 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
25612 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
25613 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
25614 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
25615 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
25616 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
25617 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
25618 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
25619 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25620 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
25621 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25623 o Build improvements:
25624 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
25625 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
25626 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
25627 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
25628 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
25629 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
25630 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
25631 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
25632 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
25633 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
25634 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
25635 than to perform erroneously.
25637 o Removed features:
25638 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
25639 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
25640 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
25642 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
25643 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
25644 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
25647 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25648 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
25650 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
25651 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
25655 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
25656 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
25657 work more robustly.
25660 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
25661 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
25662 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
25666 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
25667 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
25668 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
25669 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
25672 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
25673 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
25674 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
25675 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
25676 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
25677 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
25678 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
25679 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
25680 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
25681 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
25682 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
25683 closes ticket 7199.
25685 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
25686 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
25687 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
25688 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
25689 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
25690 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
25691 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
25692 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
25693 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
25694 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
25695 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
25697 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
25698 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
25699 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
25701 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
25702 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
25703 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
25705 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
25707 o Major features (better link encryption):
25708 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
25709 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
25710 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
25711 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
25712 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
25713 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
25716 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
25717 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
25718 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
25719 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
25720 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
25721 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
25722 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
25724 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
25725 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
25726 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
25727 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
25729 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
25732 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
25733 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
25734 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
25737 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
25738 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
25739 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
25740 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
25741 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
25742 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
25743 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
25744 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
25745 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25747 o Minor features (testing):
25748 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
25749 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
25750 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
25752 o Minor features (path bias detection):
25753 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
25754 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
25755 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
25756 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
25757 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
25758 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
25759 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
25760 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
25761 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
25762 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
25763 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
25764 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
25765 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
25766 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
25767 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
25768 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
25769 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
25770 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
25771 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
25772 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
25773 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
25774 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
25775 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
25776 detection capability loss.
25778 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
25779 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
25780 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
25781 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
25782 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
25783 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
25784 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
25785 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
25788 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25789 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
25790 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
25791 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
25792 and the different handshakes it supports.
25793 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
25794 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
25795 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
25796 any encoding is overkill.
25799 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
25800 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
25801 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
25802 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
25803 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
25804 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
25805 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
25806 and fixes a variety of other issues.
25808 o Major features (client resilience):
25809 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
25810 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
25811 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
25812 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
25813 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
25814 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
25815 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
25816 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
25817 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
25818 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
25819 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
25820 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
25821 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
25822 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
25823 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
25825 o Major features (IPv6):
25826 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
25827 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
25828 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
25829 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
25830 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
25831 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
25832 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
25833 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
25835 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
25836 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
25838 o Major features (geoip database):
25839 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
25840 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
25841 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
25842 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
25843 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
25844 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
25845 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
25846 Country database, as modified above.
25848 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
25849 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
25850 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
25851 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
25852 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
25853 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
25854 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
25855 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
25856 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
25857 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
25858 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
25859 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
25860 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
25861 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
25862 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
25863 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
25864 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
25867 o Major bugfixes (other):
25868 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
25869 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
25870 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
25871 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
25872 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
25873 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
25874 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
25875 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
25877 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
25878 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
25881 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
25882 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
25883 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
25884 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
25885 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
25886 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
25887 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
25888 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
25890 o Minor features (IPv6):
25891 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
25892 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
25893 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
25894 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
25895 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
25896 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
25897 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
25898 connect to the wrong addresses.
25899 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
25900 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
25901 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
25902 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
25906 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
25907 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
25908 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
25909 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
25910 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
25911 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
25912 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
25914 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
25915 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
25916 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
25919 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
25920 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
25922 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25923 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
25924 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
25925 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
25926 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
25929 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
25930 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
25931 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
25932 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
25933 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
25934 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
25935 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
25936 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
25938 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
25939 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
25940 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
25941 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
25942 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
25943 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
25944 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
25945 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
25946 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
25947 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
25948 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
25951 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
25952 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
25953 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
25954 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
25955 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
25956 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
25957 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
25958 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
25959 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
25960 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
25963 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
25964 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
25968 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
25969 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
25970 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
25971 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
25974 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
25975 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
25977 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
25978 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
25979 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
25980 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
25981 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
25982 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
25983 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
25984 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
25985 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
25986 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
25989 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
25991 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
25992 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
25993 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
25994 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
25995 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
25998 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
25999 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
26000 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26001 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
26002 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
26004 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
26005 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
26006 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
26007 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
26008 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
26009 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
26010 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
26012 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
26013 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
26014 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
26015 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
26016 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
26017 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
26018 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
26019 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
26021 o Code simplification and refactoring:
26022 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
26023 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
26024 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
26025 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
26026 present the same extensions.)
26029 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
26030 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
26031 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
26032 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
26033 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
26035 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
26036 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
26037 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
26038 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
26040 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
26041 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
26042 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
26043 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26045 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
26046 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
26047 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
26048 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
26049 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
26050 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
26051 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
26052 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
26053 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26055 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
26056 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
26057 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
26058 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
26059 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26062 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
26063 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
26064 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
26066 o Code simplification and refactoring:
26067 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
26069 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
26070 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
26074 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
26075 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
26076 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
26077 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
26080 o Major bugfixes (security):
26081 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
26082 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
26083 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
26085 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
26086 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
26087 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
26088 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26091 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
26092 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
26093 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
26094 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
26095 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
26096 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
26097 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
26098 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26101 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
26102 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
26103 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
26104 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26107 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
26108 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
26109 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
26110 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
26111 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
26112 scheduling algorithms.
26114 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
26115 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
26116 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
26118 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
26119 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
26120 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
26121 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
26122 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
26123 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
26124 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
26125 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
26126 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
26127 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
26128 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
26130 o Internal abstraction features:
26131 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
26132 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
26133 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
26134 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
26135 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
26136 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
26137 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
26138 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
26139 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
26140 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
26141 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
26142 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
26143 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
26144 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
26145 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
26146 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
26147 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
26149 o Required libraries:
26150 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
26151 strongly recommended.
26154 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
26155 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
26156 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
26157 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
26158 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
26159 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
26160 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
26161 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
26162 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
26164 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
26165 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
26166 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
26167 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
26168 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
26169 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
26170 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
26171 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26172 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
26173 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
26174 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
26175 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
26176 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
26177 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
26178 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
26181 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
26182 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
26183 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
26184 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
26185 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
26186 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
26187 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
26188 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
26189 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
26190 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
26191 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
26192 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
26193 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
26194 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
26195 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26196 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
26197 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
26198 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
26199 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
26201 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
26202 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
26203 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
26204 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
26205 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
26206 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
26207 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
26210 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
26211 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
26212 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
26213 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
26215 o New directory authorities:
26216 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
26217 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
26219 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
26220 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
26221 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
26222 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
26223 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
26224 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
26225 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
26226 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
26227 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
26228 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
26229 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
26232 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
26233 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
26234 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
26236 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
26237 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
26238 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
26239 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26240 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
26241 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
26242 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26243 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
26244 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
26246 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26247 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
26248 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
26249 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
26250 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
26251 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
26252 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
26253 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
26254 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
26255 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
26256 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
26257 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
26258 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
26259 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
26260 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
26261 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
26262 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
26263 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
26265 o Documentation fixes:
26266 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
26269 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
26270 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
26271 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
26272 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
26275 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
26276 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
26277 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26280 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
26281 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
26282 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
26283 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
26284 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
26285 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
26286 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
26287 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
26289 o Security features:
26290 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
26291 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
26292 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
26293 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
26294 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
26295 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
26296 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
26297 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
26298 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
26302 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
26303 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
26304 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
26307 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
26308 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
26309 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
26310 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
26311 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26312 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
26313 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
26314 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
26315 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
26316 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
26317 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26318 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
26319 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
26320 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
26322 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
26323 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26324 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
26325 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
26326 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26328 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
26329 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
26330 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
26331 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26332 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
26333 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
26334 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26335 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
26336 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
26337 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
26338 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
26339 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
26340 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
26341 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26342 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
26343 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
26344 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
26345 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
26346 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
26347 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
26349 o Code simplification and refactoring:
26350 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
26351 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
26352 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
26353 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
26354 testable, and a little less fragile too.
26355 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
26356 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
26358 o Documentation fixes:
26359 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
26360 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
26364 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
26365 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
26369 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
26370 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
26371 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26374 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
26375 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
26379 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
26380 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
26384 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
26385 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
26386 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26387 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
26388 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
26389 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
26390 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
26394 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
26395 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
26396 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
26397 log messages less noisy.
26400 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
26401 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
26405 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
26406 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
26407 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
26408 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
26409 last time we raised it).
26412 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
26413 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
26415 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
26416 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
26417 part of ticket 6736.
26418 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
26419 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
26420 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
26424 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
26425 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
26426 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
26427 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
26428 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
26430 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
26431 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26432 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
26433 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
26434 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26435 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
26436 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
26437 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26438 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
26439 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26440 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
26441 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26443 o Removed features:
26444 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
26445 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
26446 bunch of compatibility code.
26448 o Code refactoring:
26449 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
26450 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
26451 the ORPort and the DirPort.
26454 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
26455 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
26456 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
26457 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
26459 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
26460 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
26461 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
26463 o Major features (bridges):
26464 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
26465 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
26466 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
26469 o Major features (IPv6):
26470 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
26471 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
26472 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
26473 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
26474 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
26475 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
26476 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
26477 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
26478 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
26480 o Major features (build):
26481 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
26482 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
26483 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
26484 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
26485 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
26486 fixes by Jim Meyering.
26487 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
26488 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
26489 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
26491 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
26492 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
26493 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
26494 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
26495 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
26496 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
26497 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
26498 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
26499 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
26500 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
26501 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
26503 o Minor features (streamlining);
26504 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
26505 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
26507 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
26508 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
26509 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
26510 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
26511 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
26512 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26514 o Minor features (controller):
26515 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
26517 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
26518 Implements ticket 4971.
26520 o Minor features (IPv6):
26521 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
26522 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
26523 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
26524 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
26525 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
26527 o Minor features (log messages):
26528 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
26529 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
26530 Resolves ticket 6758.
26531 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
26532 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
26533 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
26534 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26535 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
26536 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
26537 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
26539 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
26540 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
26541 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
26542 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
26543 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
26546 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26547 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
26548 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
26549 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
26550 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
26552 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
26553 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
26554 Implements ticket 5529.
26555 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
26556 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
26557 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
26558 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
26559 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
26560 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
26561 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
26562 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
26563 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
26564 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
26566 o New requirements:
26567 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
26568 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
26569 from a source distribution.)
26572 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
26573 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
26574 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
26575 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
26576 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
26577 and cleans up other smaller issues.
26579 o Major bugfixes (security):
26580 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
26581 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
26582 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
26583 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
26584 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
26585 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
26586 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
26587 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
26588 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
26589 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
26590 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
26591 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
26592 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
26593 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
26594 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
26595 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
26599 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
26600 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
26601 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
26602 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26603 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
26604 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
26605 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
26606 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
26607 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
26608 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
26611 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
26612 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
26613 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
26614 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
26615 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26616 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
26617 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
26618 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
26619 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
26620 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
26621 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
26623 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
26624 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
26625 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
26627 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
26628 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
26629 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
26630 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
26631 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
26632 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
26633 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
26634 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
26635 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26636 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
26637 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26638 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
26639 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
26640 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
26643 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
26644 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
26645 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
26646 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
26647 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
26648 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
26649 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
26650 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
26651 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
26652 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
26653 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
26654 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
26655 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
26656 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
26657 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
26660 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
26661 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
26662 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
26663 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
26664 Resolves ticket 6732.
26667 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
26668 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
26669 attack that could in theory leak path information.
26672 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
26673 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
26674 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26675 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
26676 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
26677 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
26678 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
26679 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
26680 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
26681 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
26682 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
26683 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
26684 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
26685 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
26688 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
26689 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
26690 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
26691 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
26694 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
26695 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
26696 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26697 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
26698 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
26699 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26700 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
26701 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
26702 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
26703 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
26704 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
26705 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
26706 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
26707 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
26708 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
26709 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
26710 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
26713 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
26714 a little more useful.
26715 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
26716 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26717 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
26718 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
26719 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
26720 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
26721 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
26724 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
26725 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26726 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
26727 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26728 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
26729 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
26733 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
26734 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
26735 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
26736 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
26737 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
26740 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
26741 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
26742 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
26745 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
26747 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
26749 o Code simplification and refactoring:
26750 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
26751 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
26752 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
26753 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
26756 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
26757 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
26758 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
26759 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
26760 since the beginning of Tor.
26763 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
26764 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
26765 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
26766 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
26767 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
26768 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
26769 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
26770 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26771 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
26772 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
26775 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
26776 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
26779 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
26780 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
26781 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
26782 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
26785 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
26786 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26787 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
26788 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
26789 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
26790 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26792 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26793 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
26794 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
26795 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
26796 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
26797 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
26798 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26799 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
26800 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
26801 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
26802 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
26803 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
26804 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
26805 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
26806 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
26807 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
26808 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26809 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
26810 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
26812 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
26813 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
26814 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
26816 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
26817 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26818 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
26819 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
26821 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
26822 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26823 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
26824 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26825 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
26826 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
26827 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26828 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
26829 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
26830 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
26831 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26832 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
26833 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
26834 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26835 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
26836 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
26839 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
26840 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
26841 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
26842 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
26843 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
26846 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
26847 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
26848 options. Closes bug 4748.
26851 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
26852 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
26853 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
26854 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
26855 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
26859 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
26860 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
26862 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
26863 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
26864 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
26865 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
26866 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
26867 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
26868 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
26869 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
26870 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
26873 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
26874 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
26875 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
26876 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
26877 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
26878 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
26879 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
26880 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
26883 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
26884 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
26885 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
26886 case for flushing marked connections.
26887 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
26888 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
26889 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
26890 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
26891 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
26892 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
26893 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
26894 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
26895 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
26896 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
26897 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
26898 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
26899 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
26900 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
26901 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
26902 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
26903 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
26904 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
26905 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
26906 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
26907 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
26908 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
26909 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
26910 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
26911 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
26913 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
26914 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
26915 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
26919 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
26920 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
26921 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
26922 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
26923 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
26924 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
26925 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
26926 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
26927 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
26928 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
26929 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
26930 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
26931 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
26932 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
26933 Addresses ticket 5458.
26934 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26936 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26937 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
26938 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
26941 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
26942 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
26943 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
26947 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
26948 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
26949 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
26950 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
26951 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
26952 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
26953 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26954 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
26955 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
26956 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
26957 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26960 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
26961 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
26964 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
26965 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
26968 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
26969 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
26970 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
26971 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
26972 that get us closer to a release candidate.
26974 o Major bugfixes (general):
26975 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
26976 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
26977 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
26978 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
26979 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
26980 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
26981 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26982 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
26983 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
26985 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
26986 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
26987 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
26988 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
26991 o Major bugfixes (clients):
26992 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
26993 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
26994 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
26995 which introduced predicted ports.
26996 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
26997 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
26998 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
26999 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27000 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
27001 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
27002 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
27003 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
27004 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
27005 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
27006 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
27007 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
27008 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
27010 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
27011 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
27012 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
27013 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
27014 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
27015 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
27016 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
27017 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
27018 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
27019 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
27020 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
27024 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
27025 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
27026 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
27027 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
27028 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
27029 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
27030 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
27031 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
27032 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
27033 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
27034 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
27035 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
27036 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
27037 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
27039 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
27040 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
27041 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
27042 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
27043 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
27044 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
27045 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
27046 sure. Closes bug 5139.
27047 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
27048 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
27049 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
27050 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
27051 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
27052 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
27053 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27055 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
27056 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
27057 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
27058 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
27059 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
27060 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
27061 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
27062 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
27063 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
27064 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
27065 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
27066 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
27067 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
27068 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
27069 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
27070 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
27071 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
27072 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
27073 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
27074 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
27076 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27077 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
27078 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
27079 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
27080 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
27081 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
27082 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
27083 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
27084 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
27085 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
27086 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
27087 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
27088 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
27090 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
27091 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27092 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
27093 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
27095 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
27096 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
27097 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
27098 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
27099 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
27100 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
27101 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
27102 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
27103 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
27104 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
27106 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
27107 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
27108 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
27110 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27111 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
27112 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
27113 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
27114 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
27115 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
27116 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
27117 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
27118 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
27119 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
27120 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
27121 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27122 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
27123 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
27124 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
27125 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
27126 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
27127 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
27128 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
27129 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
27131 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
27132 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
27133 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
27134 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
27135 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
27136 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
27138 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
27139 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
27140 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
27142 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
27143 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
27144 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
27145 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
27146 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
27147 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
27149 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
27150 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
27151 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
27153 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
27154 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
27155 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27156 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
27157 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
27158 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27159 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
27160 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
27161 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
27162 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
27163 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
27164 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
27165 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
27166 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
27167 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
27168 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
27170 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
27171 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
27172 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27173 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
27174 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
27175 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27176 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
27177 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27178 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
27179 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
27180 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
27181 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
27182 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
27185 o Documentation fixes:
27186 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
27187 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
27188 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
27189 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
27190 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
27191 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
27194 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
27195 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
27199 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
27200 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
27201 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
27202 and fixes several crash bugs.
27204 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
27205 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
27206 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
27207 those packages and upgrade anyway.
27209 o Directory authority changes:
27210 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
27211 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
27215 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
27216 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
27217 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
27218 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
27219 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
27220 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
27221 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
27222 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
27223 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
27224 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
27225 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
27226 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
27227 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
27228 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
27229 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
27230 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
27231 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
27232 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
27233 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
27234 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
27235 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
27236 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
27237 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
27238 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
27239 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
27240 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
27241 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
27244 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
27245 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27246 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
27247 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
27249 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
27250 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
27252 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
27253 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
27254 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
27255 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
27256 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
27257 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
27258 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
27259 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
27262 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
27263 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
27264 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
27265 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
27266 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
27267 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
27268 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
27269 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
27270 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
27271 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
27272 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
27273 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
27274 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
27275 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
27276 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
27277 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
27278 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
27279 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
27280 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
27281 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
27282 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
27283 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
27284 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
27285 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
27286 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
27287 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
27288 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
27289 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
27290 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
27291 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
27292 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
27293 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
27294 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
27295 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
27296 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
27297 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
27298 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
27299 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
27300 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
27301 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
27302 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
27303 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
27304 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
27305 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
27306 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
27307 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
27309 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
27310 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
27311 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
27312 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
27313 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
27314 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
27315 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
27316 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
27317 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
27318 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
27319 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27320 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
27321 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
27322 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
27323 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
27326 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
27327 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
27328 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
27329 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
27331 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27334 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
27335 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
27336 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
27337 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
27338 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
27339 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
27340 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
27343 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
27344 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
27345 the development branch build on Windows again.
27347 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27348 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
27349 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
27350 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
27351 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
27352 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
27353 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
27354 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
27355 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
27356 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
27357 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
27358 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
27359 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
27360 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
27361 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
27363 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
27364 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
27365 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
27366 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27367 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
27368 and 0.2.3.12-alpha.
27369 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
27370 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
27371 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
27372 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
27373 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
27374 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
27377 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
27378 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
27379 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
27380 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
27381 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
27382 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
27383 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
27384 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
27385 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
27387 o Removed features:
27388 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
27389 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
27390 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
27391 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
27395 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
27396 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
27397 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
27398 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
27400 o Directory authority changes:
27401 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
27405 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
27406 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27407 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
27408 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
27410 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
27411 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
27412 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
27413 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
27414 documents entirely.
27415 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
27416 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
27417 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27419 o Major features (performance):
27420 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
27421 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
27422 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
27423 much faster than other AES implementations.
27425 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
27426 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
27427 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
27428 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
27429 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
27430 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
27431 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
27432 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
27433 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
27434 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
27435 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
27436 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
27437 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
27438 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
27439 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
27440 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
27441 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
27442 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
27444 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
27445 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
27446 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
27447 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27448 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
27449 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27450 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
27451 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
27452 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
27454 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
27455 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
27456 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
27457 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
27458 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
27459 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
27462 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
27463 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
27464 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
27465 please let us know about it.
27466 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
27467 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
27468 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
27469 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
27470 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27471 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27472 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
27473 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
27475 o Default torrc changes:
27476 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
27477 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
27479 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
27480 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
27481 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
27484 o Removed features:
27485 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
27486 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
27487 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
27488 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
27490 o Code refactoring:
27491 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
27492 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
27493 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
27494 it would be a bad idea to start.
27497 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
27498 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
27499 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
27500 that get us closer to a release candidate.
27502 o Directory authority changes:
27503 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
27506 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
27507 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
27508 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
27509 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
27510 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
27511 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
27512 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
27513 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
27514 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
27515 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
27516 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
27517 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
27518 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
27519 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
27520 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
27521 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
27523 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
27524 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
27525 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
27526 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
27527 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
27528 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27529 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
27530 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
27531 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27532 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
27533 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
27534 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
27536 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
27537 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
27538 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27539 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
27540 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
27542 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27543 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
27544 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
27545 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
27546 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
27547 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
27548 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
27549 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
27550 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
27551 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
27552 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
27553 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
27554 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
27555 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
27556 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
27557 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
27558 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
27559 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
27560 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
27561 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
27562 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
27563 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
27566 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
27567 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
27568 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27569 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
27570 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
27571 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
27572 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
27573 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
27574 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27575 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
27576 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
27577 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
27578 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
27579 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
27580 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
27581 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
27582 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
27585 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
27586 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
27587 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27590 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
27591 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
27592 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
27593 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
27596 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
27597 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
27599 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
27600 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
27601 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
27602 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
27603 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
27604 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
27605 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
27606 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
27607 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
27608 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
27609 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
27610 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27613 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
27614 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
27615 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
27616 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
27617 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
27618 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
27619 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27622 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
27623 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
27624 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
27625 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27626 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
27627 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
27628 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
27629 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
27630 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
27631 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
27633 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
27634 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
27635 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
27636 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
27637 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
27638 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
27639 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
27640 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
27641 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
27644 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27645 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
27646 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
27650 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
27651 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
27652 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
27653 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
27654 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
27655 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
27658 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
27659 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
27660 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
27661 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
27662 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
27663 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
27664 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
27665 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
27667 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
27668 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
27669 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
27670 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
27671 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
27672 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
27673 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
27674 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
27676 o Major security workaround:
27677 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
27678 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
27679 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
27680 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
27681 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
27682 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
27683 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
27684 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
27685 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
27686 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
27687 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
27690 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
27691 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
27692 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
27693 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
27694 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
27695 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
27696 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
27697 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27698 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
27699 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
27700 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
27701 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
27702 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
27704 o Minor features (controller):
27705 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
27706 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
27707 file. Resolves bug 1101.
27708 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
27709 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
27710 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
27711 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
27712 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
27713 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
27715 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
27716 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
27717 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
27718 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
27719 part of ticket 3457.
27720 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
27721 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
27722 circuit-status' control-port command.
27724 o Minor features (directory authorities):
27725 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
27726 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
27727 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
27728 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
27730 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
27731 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
27732 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
27733 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
27734 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
27735 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
27736 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
27738 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
27739 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
27741 o Minor features (other):
27742 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
27743 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
27744 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
27745 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
27746 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
27747 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
27748 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
27749 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
27751 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
27752 them from the other auths.
27753 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
27754 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
27755 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
27756 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
27757 the 0.2.3.x series.
27758 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27760 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
27761 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
27762 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
27763 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
27764 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
27765 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
27766 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
27767 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
27768 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
27769 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
27770 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
27771 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
27772 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
27773 be disabled using the new
27774 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
27775 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
27776 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
27777 had its introduction cell acknowledged by the introduction-point
27778 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
27779 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
27780 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
27781 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
27782 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
27783 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
27784 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
27785 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
27787 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
27788 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
27789 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
27792 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
27793 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
27794 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
27796 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
27797 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
27798 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
27799 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
27800 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
27801 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
27802 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
27804 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
27805 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
27806 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
27807 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
27808 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
27809 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
27810 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
27811 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
27813 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
27814 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
27815 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
27816 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
27817 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
27818 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
27819 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
27820 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
27821 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
27824 o Minor bugfixes (other):
27825 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
27826 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
27827 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
27828 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
27829 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
27830 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
27831 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
27832 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
27833 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
27834 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
27835 accidentally been reverted.
27836 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
27837 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
27838 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
27839 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
27840 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
27841 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
27842 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
27843 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
27844 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
27845 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27846 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
27847 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
27848 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
27849 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
27850 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27851 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
27852 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27853 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
27854 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27857 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
27858 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
27859 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
27860 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
27861 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
27862 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
27863 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
27865 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27866 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
27867 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
27868 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
27869 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
27870 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
27871 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
27873 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
27874 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
27875 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
27876 invalid value, rather than just -1.
27877 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
27878 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
27879 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
27880 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
27881 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
27882 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
27883 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
27887 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
27888 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
27889 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
27891 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
27892 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
27893 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
27894 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
27895 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
27896 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
27897 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
27898 (which Tor does not do by default).
27900 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
27901 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
27902 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
27903 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
27904 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
27906 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
27910 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
27911 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
27912 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
27913 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
27916 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
27917 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
27918 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
27919 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
27920 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
27921 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
27922 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
27923 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
27924 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
27925 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
27926 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27929 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27932 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
27933 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
27934 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
27936 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
27937 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
27938 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
27939 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
27940 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
27941 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
27942 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
27943 (which Tor does not do by default).
27945 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
27946 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
27947 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
27948 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
27949 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
27951 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
27952 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
27953 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
27956 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
27957 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
27958 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
27959 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
27960 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
27962 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
27963 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
27966 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
27967 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
27968 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
27969 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
27970 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
27971 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
27972 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
27973 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
27975 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
27976 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
27977 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
27978 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
27979 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
27980 close based on processing a cell on it.
27981 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
27982 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
27983 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
27984 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27985 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
27986 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
27987 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
27988 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
27989 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
27990 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
27991 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
27992 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
27993 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
27994 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
27995 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
27998 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
27999 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
28000 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
28001 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
28002 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
28003 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
28004 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
28006 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
28007 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
28008 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
28009 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
28010 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
28011 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
28012 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
28013 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
28014 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28015 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
28016 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
28017 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
28018 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
28019 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28020 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
28021 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
28022 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
28023 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
28024 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28025 Reported by "troll_un".
28026 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
28027 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28028 Reported by "troll_un".
28029 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
28030 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
28031 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
28032 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
28035 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
28036 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
28037 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
28038 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
28039 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
28040 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
28041 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
28042 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
28043 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
28044 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
28045 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28047 o Packaging changes:
28048 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
28049 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
28052 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
28053 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
28054 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
28055 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
28056 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
28058 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
28059 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
28061 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
28062 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
28063 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
28064 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
28065 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28066 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
28067 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
28068 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
28069 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
28072 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28075 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
28076 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
28077 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
28078 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
28079 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
28080 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
28081 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
28084 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
28085 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
28086 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
28087 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
28088 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
28089 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
28090 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
28091 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
28092 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
28093 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
28094 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
28095 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
28096 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
28097 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
28098 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
28099 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
28100 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
28101 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
28102 Resolves ticket 4526.
28103 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
28104 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
28105 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
28106 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
28107 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
28108 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
28109 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
28110 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
28111 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
28112 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
28113 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
28114 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
28115 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
28116 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
28117 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
28118 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
28121 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
28122 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
28123 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
28124 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
28125 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
28126 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
28127 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
28128 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
28129 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
28130 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
28132 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
28133 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
28134 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
28135 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
28136 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
28137 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
28138 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
28139 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
28140 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
28142 o Minor features (new/different config options):
28143 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
28144 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
28145 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
28146 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
28147 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
28148 Implements issue 933.
28149 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
28150 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
28151 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
28152 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
28153 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
28154 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
28155 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
28156 appending to the list.
28157 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
28158 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
28159 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
28160 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
28162 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
28163 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
28164 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
28165 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
28166 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
28167 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
28168 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
28169 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
28172 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
28173 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
28174 Resolves ticket 2474.
28175 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
28176 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
28177 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
28178 Required by fix for bug 3460.
28179 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
28180 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
28181 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
28182 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
28183 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
28184 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
28185 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
28186 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
28187 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
28189 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
28190 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
28191 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
28193 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
28195 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
28196 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
28198 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
28199 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
28200 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
28201 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
28202 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
28203 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
28204 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
28206 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
28207 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
28208 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28209 Reported by "troll_un".
28210 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
28211 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28212 Reported by "troll_un".
28213 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
28214 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
28215 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
28216 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
28218 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
28219 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
28221 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
28222 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
28223 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
28224 with help from wanoskarnet.
28225 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
28226 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
28229 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
28230 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
28231 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
28232 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28234 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
28235 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
28236 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
28237 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
28238 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
28239 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
28240 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
28241 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
28244 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
28245 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
28246 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
28247 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
28248 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
28249 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
28250 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
28251 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
28252 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
28255 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
28256 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
28257 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
28258 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
28260 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
28261 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
28262 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
28263 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28264 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
28265 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
28266 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
28267 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
28268 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
28269 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
28270 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
28271 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
28272 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
28273 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
28274 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
28275 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
28276 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
28277 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
28278 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
28279 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
28280 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
28281 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
28282 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
28283 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
28286 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
28287 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
28288 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
28289 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
28290 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
28291 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28292 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
28293 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
28296 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
28297 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
28298 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
28299 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
28300 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
28301 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
28302 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
28303 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
28304 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
28305 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
28306 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
28307 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
28308 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
28309 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
28310 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
28312 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
28313 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
28314 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
28315 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
28316 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
28317 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
28318 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
28319 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28320 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
28321 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
28322 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
28323 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
28324 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
28325 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28326 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
28327 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
28328 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28330 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
28331 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
28332 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
28333 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
28334 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
28335 Found by frosty_un.
28336 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
28337 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
28338 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
28340 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
28341 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
28342 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
28344 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
28345 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
28347 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
28348 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
28351 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
28352 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
28353 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
28354 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
28355 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
28356 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
28357 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
28358 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
28359 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
28360 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
28361 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
28362 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
28363 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
28364 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
28366 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
28367 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
28368 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28370 o Packaging changes:
28371 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
28372 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
28374 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28375 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
28376 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
28377 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
28378 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
28379 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
28380 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
28381 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
28382 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
28385 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
28387 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
28388 ./src/test/bench binary.
28389 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
28390 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
28393 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
28394 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
28395 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
28399 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
28400 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
28401 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
28402 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
28403 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
28404 close based on processing a cell on it.
28405 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
28406 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
28407 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
28408 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
28409 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
28410 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
28411 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
28412 cells were introduced.
28415 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
28416 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
28419 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
28420 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
28421 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
28422 users. Everybody should upgrade.
28424 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
28425 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
28428 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
28429 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
28430 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
28431 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
28432 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
28433 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
28435 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
28436 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
28437 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
28438 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
28439 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
28440 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
28441 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
28442 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
28443 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
28444 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
28445 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
28446 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
28447 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
28448 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
28449 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
28450 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
28451 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
28452 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
28455 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
28456 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
28457 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
28458 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
28459 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
28460 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
28461 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
28462 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
28463 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
28464 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
28465 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
28466 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
28467 Partly fixes bug 3825.
28468 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
28469 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
28470 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
28471 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
28472 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
28473 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
28474 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
28476 o Major bugfixes (other):
28477 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
28478 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
28479 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
28480 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28481 Found by "frosty_un".
28482 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
28483 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
28484 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
28485 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
28486 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
28487 immensely in tracking this bug down.
28488 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
28489 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
28492 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
28493 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
28494 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
28495 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
28496 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
28497 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
28498 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
28499 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
28500 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
28501 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
28502 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
28503 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
28504 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
28505 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28506 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
28507 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
28508 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
28509 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
28510 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
28511 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
28512 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
28514 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
28515 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
28516 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
28517 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28518 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
28519 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
28520 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
28521 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
28522 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
28523 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
28524 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
28527 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
28528 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
28529 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
28530 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
28531 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
28532 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
28533 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
28534 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
28535 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
28536 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
28537 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
28538 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
28539 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
28540 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28542 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28543 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
28544 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
28545 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
28546 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
28547 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
28548 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
28549 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
28552 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
28553 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
28554 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
28556 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
28557 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
28558 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
28559 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
28560 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
28561 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
28562 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
28563 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
28564 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
28565 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
28566 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
28567 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
28568 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
28570 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
28571 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
28572 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
28573 currently connected to them.
28575 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
28576 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
28577 remain; see for example proposal 188.
28579 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
28580 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
28581 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
28582 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
28583 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
28584 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
28585 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
28586 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
28587 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
28588 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
28589 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
28590 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
28591 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
28592 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
28593 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
28594 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
28595 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
28596 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
28599 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
28600 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
28601 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
28602 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
28603 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
28604 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
28605 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
28606 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
28607 when bridges were introduced.
28608 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
28609 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
28610 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
28611 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28612 Found by "frosty_un".
28615 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
28616 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
28618 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
28619 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
28620 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
28621 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
28622 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
28623 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
28624 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
28627 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
28628 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
28629 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
28630 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
28631 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
28632 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
28633 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
28634 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
28635 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
28636 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
28637 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
28638 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
28639 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
28640 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
28641 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
28642 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
28643 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
28644 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
28646 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
28647 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
28648 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
28649 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28650 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
28651 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
28652 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
28653 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
28654 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
28655 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
28656 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
28657 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
28660 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
28661 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
28662 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
28663 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28666 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
28667 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
28668 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
28669 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
28670 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
28672 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
28673 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
28674 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
28675 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
28676 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
28677 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
28678 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
28679 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
28680 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
28681 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28683 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
28684 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
28685 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
28686 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
28687 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
28688 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
28689 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
28690 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
28691 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
28692 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
28693 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
28694 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
28695 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
28696 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
28697 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28698 Found by "frosty_un".
28699 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
28700 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
28701 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
28702 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
28703 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
28704 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
28705 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
28706 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
28707 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
28708 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
28709 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
28710 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
28711 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28712 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
28713 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
28714 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
28715 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
28716 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
28717 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
28719 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
28720 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
28721 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
28722 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
28723 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
28724 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
28725 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
28726 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
28728 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
28729 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
28730 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
28731 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
28732 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
28733 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
28734 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
28735 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
28736 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
28737 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
28738 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
28739 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
28741 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
28742 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28743 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
28744 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28745 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
28746 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28747 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
28748 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
28749 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
28751 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
28753 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
28754 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
28755 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
28756 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28757 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
28758 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
28759 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
28760 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
28762 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
28763 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
28764 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
28765 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
28766 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
28768 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
28769 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
28770 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
28771 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
28772 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28775 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
28776 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
28777 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
28778 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
28779 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
28782 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
28783 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
28784 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
28785 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
28786 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
28787 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
28788 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
28789 when bridges were introduced.
28792 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
28793 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
28794 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28796 o Major features (networking):
28797 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
28798 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
28799 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
28800 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
28801 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
28805 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
28806 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
28807 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
28809 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
28810 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
28811 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
28812 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
28813 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
28815 o Minor features (diagnostics):
28816 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
28817 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
28820 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
28821 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
28822 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
28823 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
28824 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
28825 listed in the network consensus and republish.
28827 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
28828 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
28829 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
28830 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28832 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
28833 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
28834 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
28835 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
28836 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
28837 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
28838 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
28839 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
28840 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
28841 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
28842 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
28844 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
28845 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
28846 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
28847 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
28848 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
28849 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
28850 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
28851 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
28852 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
28853 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28855 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
28856 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
28857 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
28858 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
28859 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
28860 fixes part of bug 2442.
28861 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
28862 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
28863 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
28865 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
28866 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
28867 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
28868 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
28869 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28871 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
28872 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
28873 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
28874 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
28875 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
28878 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
28879 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
28880 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
28884 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
28885 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
28886 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
28887 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
28888 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
28889 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
28890 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
28893 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
28894 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
28895 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
28896 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
28897 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
28898 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
28899 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
28902 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
28903 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
28904 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
28905 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
28906 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
28907 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
28908 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
28909 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
28910 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28912 o Code refactoring:
28913 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
28914 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
28917 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
28918 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
28919 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
28920 reachable from Iran again.
28923 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
28924 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
28925 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28927 o Minor features (security):
28928 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
28929 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
28930 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
28931 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
28932 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
28933 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
28934 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
28935 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
28936 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
28937 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
28940 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
28941 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
28942 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
28943 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
28944 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
28945 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
28946 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
28947 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
28948 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28950 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
28951 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
28952 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
28953 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
28954 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
28955 raised by bug 3898.
28956 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
28957 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
28958 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
28959 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
28960 fixes part of bug 2442.
28961 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
28962 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
28963 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
28965 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
28966 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
28967 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
28968 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
28969 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28972 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
28973 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
28974 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
28975 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
28976 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
28977 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
28980 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
28981 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
28982 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
28983 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
28984 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
28985 bufferevent-based networking backend.
28987 o Major features (stream isolation):
28988 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
28989 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
28990 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
28991 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
28992 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
28993 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
28994 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
28995 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
28996 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
28997 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
28998 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
28999 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
29000 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
29001 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
29003 o Major features (other):
29004 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
29005 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
29006 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
29007 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
29008 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
29009 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
29010 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
29011 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
29012 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
29013 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
29014 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
29015 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
29016 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
29018 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
29019 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
29021 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
29022 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
29023 Fixes part of bug 3752.
29024 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
29025 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
29026 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
29027 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
29028 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
29029 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
29030 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
29031 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
29032 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
29033 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
29034 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
29035 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
29036 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
29037 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
29038 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
29039 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
29040 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
29042 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
29043 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
29044 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
29045 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
29046 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
29047 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
29050 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
29051 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
29052 user. Implements ticket 1692.
29053 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
29054 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
29055 best copy data out of a buffer.
29056 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
29057 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
29058 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
29060 o Minor features (build compatibility):
29061 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
29062 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
29063 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
29065 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
29066 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29068 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
29069 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
29070 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
29071 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
29072 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
29073 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
29074 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
29076 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
29077 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
29078 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
29079 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
29080 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
29081 raised by bug 3898.
29082 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
29083 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
29084 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
29087 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
29088 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
29089 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
29090 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
29091 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
29092 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
29093 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
29094 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
29095 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
29096 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
29097 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
29098 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29099 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
29100 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
29101 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
29102 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
29103 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
29104 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
29105 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
29108 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29109 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
29110 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
29114 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
29115 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
29116 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
29117 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
29118 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
29119 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
29122 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
29123 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
29124 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
29125 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
29126 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
29127 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
29128 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
29129 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
29130 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
29131 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
29133 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
29134 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
29135 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
29136 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
29137 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
29138 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
29139 many many other features and bugfixes.
29142 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
29143 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
29144 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
29147 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
29148 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
29149 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
29150 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
29151 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
29152 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
29153 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
29154 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
29157 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29160 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
29161 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
29162 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29163 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
29164 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
29165 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
29166 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
29167 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
29168 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
29169 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
29170 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
29171 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
29172 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
29173 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29174 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
29175 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
29176 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
29177 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
29181 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
29182 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
29183 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
29184 up a variety of recently introduced features.
29187 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
29188 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
29189 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
29190 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
29191 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
29192 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
29193 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
29194 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
29195 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
29196 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
29197 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
29198 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
29199 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
29200 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
29201 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
29202 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
29204 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
29205 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
29206 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
29207 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
29208 order. Fixes bug 2798.
29209 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
29210 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
29211 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
29212 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
29213 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
29214 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
29218 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
29219 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
29220 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
29221 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
29223 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
29224 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
29225 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
29226 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
29227 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
29228 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
29229 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
29230 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
29231 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
29232 Implements ticket 3264.
29233 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
29234 implements ticket 3439.
29236 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
29237 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
29238 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
29239 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
29240 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
29241 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
29242 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
29243 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
29244 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
29245 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
29246 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
29247 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
29248 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
29249 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
29250 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
29251 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
29252 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
29253 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
29254 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
29255 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
29256 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
29257 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
29258 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
29259 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
29260 fails. Spotted by coverity.
29261 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
29262 present. Found by coverity.
29263 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
29264 a directory cache that provides them.
29266 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
29267 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
29268 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
29269 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
29270 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
29271 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
29273 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
29274 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
29275 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
29276 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
29277 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
29278 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29279 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
29280 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
29282 o Code simplification and refactoring:
29283 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
29284 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
29285 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
29286 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
29287 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
29288 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
29290 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
29294 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
29295 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
29296 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
29299 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
29300 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
29301 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
29302 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
29305 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
29306 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
29307 discovered by katmagic.
29308 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
29309 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
29310 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
29311 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29312 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
29313 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
29314 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
29315 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
29316 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
29317 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
29318 fixes part of bug 3465.
29319 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
29320 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
29324 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29327 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
29328 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
29329 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
29330 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
29331 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
29334 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
29335 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
29336 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
29337 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
29338 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
29341 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
29342 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
29343 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
29344 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
29345 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
29346 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
29349 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
29350 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
29351 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
29352 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
29353 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
29354 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
29355 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
29356 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
29357 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
29358 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
29359 fixes part of bug 3407.
29360 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
29361 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
29362 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
29363 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
29364 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
29365 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
29366 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
29367 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
29368 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
29369 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
29371 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
29372 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
29373 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
29374 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
29377 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29379 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29380 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
29381 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
29383 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
29385 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
29388 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
29389 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
29390 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
29391 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
29392 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
29393 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
29397 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
29398 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
29399 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
29400 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
29401 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
29402 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
29403 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
29405 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
29406 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
29407 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
29408 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
29409 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
29410 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
29411 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
29412 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
29413 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
29414 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
29415 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
29416 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
29417 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
29418 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
29419 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
29420 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
29421 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
29422 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
29423 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
29427 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
29428 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
29429 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
29430 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
29431 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
29432 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
29433 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
29434 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
29435 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
29439 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
29440 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
29441 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
29443 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
29445 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
29446 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
29447 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
29448 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
29449 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
29450 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
29451 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
29452 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
29453 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
29455 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
29456 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
29457 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
29458 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
29459 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
29460 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
29462 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
29463 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
29465 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
29466 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
29467 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
29470 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
29471 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
29472 Resolves ticket 3252.
29473 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
29474 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
29475 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
29476 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
29477 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
29478 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
29481 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
29482 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
29485 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
29486 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
29487 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
29490 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
29491 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
29492 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
29493 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
29494 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
29497 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
29498 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
29499 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
29500 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
29501 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
29502 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
29503 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
29504 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
29505 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
29509 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
29510 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
29511 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
29512 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
29513 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
29515 o Security/privacy fixes:
29516 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
29517 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
29518 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
29519 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
29520 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
29521 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
29522 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
29523 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
29524 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
29525 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
29526 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
29527 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
29528 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
29529 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
29530 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29533 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
29534 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
29535 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
29536 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
29537 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
29538 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
29539 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
29540 part of ticket 3076.
29541 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
29542 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
29543 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
29547 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
29548 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
29549 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
29550 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
29551 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
29552 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
29553 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
29554 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
29556 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
29557 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
29558 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
29559 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
29560 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
29561 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
29562 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
29563 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
29564 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
29565 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
29566 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
29567 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
29568 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29571 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
29572 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
29573 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
29574 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
29575 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
29576 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
29577 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
29579 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
29580 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
29581 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
29582 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
29583 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
29584 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
29585 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
29586 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
29587 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
29588 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
29589 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
29590 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
29591 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
29592 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
29593 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
29594 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
29596 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
29597 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
29599 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
29600 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
29602 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
29603 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
29605 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
29606 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
29607 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29609 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
29610 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
29611 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
29612 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
29613 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
29614 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
29615 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
29616 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
29617 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
29618 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
29619 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
29621 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
29622 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
29623 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
29624 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
29625 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
29626 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
29627 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
29628 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
29629 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
29630 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
29631 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29632 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
29633 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
29636 o Removed features:
29637 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
29638 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
29639 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
29643 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
29644 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
29645 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
29646 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
29647 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
29648 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
29650 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
29651 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
29652 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
29655 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
29656 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
29657 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
29658 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
29659 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
29660 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
29661 zero-copy transports where available.
29662 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
29663 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
29664 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
29665 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
29666 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
29667 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
29668 debug it as it breaks.
29669 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
29670 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
29671 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
29672 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
29673 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
29674 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
29675 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
29676 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
29677 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
29678 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
29679 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
29680 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
29681 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
29682 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
29683 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
29684 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
29685 PortForwarding option.
29686 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
29687 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
29688 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
29689 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
29690 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
29691 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
29692 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
29695 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
29696 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
29697 Implements enhancement 1668.
29698 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
29700 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
29701 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
29702 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
29703 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
29704 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
29705 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
29706 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
29708 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
29709 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
29710 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
29711 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
29712 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
29713 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
29714 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
29716 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
29717 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
29718 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
29719 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
29720 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
29721 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
29722 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
29724 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
29725 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
29726 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
29727 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
29728 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
29729 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
29730 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
29731 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
29732 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
29733 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
29734 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
29735 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
29736 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
29737 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
29738 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
29741 o Minor features (controller):
29742 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
29743 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
29744 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
29745 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
29746 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
29747 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
29748 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
29751 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
29752 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
29753 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
29754 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
29755 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
29756 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
29757 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
29758 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
29760 o Minor packaging issues:
29761 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
29762 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
29764 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29765 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
29766 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
29767 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
29768 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
29769 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
29770 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
29771 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
29772 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
29773 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
29774 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
29775 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
29776 our library structure used to force them to link it.
29778 o Removed features:
29779 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
29780 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
29781 are no longer in use as servers.
29783 o Documentation fixes:
29784 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
29785 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
29786 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
29790 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
29791 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
29792 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
29793 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
29794 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
29795 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
29796 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
29797 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
29798 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
29799 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
29802 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
29803 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
29804 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
29805 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
29806 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
29807 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
29808 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
29809 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
29810 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
29811 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
29812 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
29813 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
29814 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
29815 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
29816 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
29817 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
29819 o Security and stability fixes:
29820 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
29821 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
29822 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
29823 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
29824 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
29825 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
29826 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
29827 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
29828 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
29829 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
29830 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
29831 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
29832 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29833 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
29834 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
29835 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
29838 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
29839 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
29840 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
29841 contributions to the network.
29843 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
29844 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
29845 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
29846 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
29847 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
29848 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
29849 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
29850 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
29851 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
29852 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
29853 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
29854 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
29855 connections to directory servers.
29856 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
29857 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
29858 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
29859 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
29860 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
29861 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
29862 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
29863 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
29864 information, or fetch directory information.
29865 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
29866 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
29867 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
29868 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
29869 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
29870 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
29871 unless you really want your Tor to break.
29872 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
29873 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
29874 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
29875 - When StrictNodes is 1:
29876 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
29877 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
29878 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
29879 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
29880 reachability self-tests.
29881 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
29882 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
29883 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
29884 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
29885 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
29886 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
29887 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
29889 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
29890 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29891 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
29892 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
29893 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
29894 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
29895 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
29896 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
29897 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
29898 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
29899 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
29902 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
29903 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
29904 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
29905 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
29906 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
29907 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
29908 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
29909 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
29910 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
29911 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
29912 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
29913 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29914 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
29915 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
29916 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
29917 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
29918 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
29920 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
29921 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
29922 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
29923 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
29924 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29925 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
29926 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
29927 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
29928 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
29929 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
29930 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
29931 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
29932 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
29933 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
29934 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
29935 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
29936 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
29937 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
29938 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
29939 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
29942 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
29943 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
29944 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
29945 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
29946 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
29947 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
29948 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
29949 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
29950 Required by fix for bug 3000.
29951 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
29952 by fix for bug 3000.
29953 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
29954 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
29956 o Code simplification and refactoring:
29957 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
29958 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
29959 send a body too). Since only server versions before
29960 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
29961 keep the workaround in place.
29962 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
29963 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
29964 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
29965 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
29966 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
29967 want to do it differently.
29968 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
29969 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
29970 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
29971 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
29972 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
29976 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
29977 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
29978 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
29979 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
29980 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
29983 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
29984 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
29985 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
29986 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
29987 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
29989 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
29990 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
29991 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
29992 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
29993 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
29994 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
29995 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
29996 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
29997 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
29998 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
29999 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
30000 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
30003 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
30004 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
30005 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
30006 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
30007 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
30008 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
30009 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
30011 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
30012 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
30013 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
30014 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
30015 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
30016 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
30017 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
30018 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
30019 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
30020 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
30021 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
30022 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
30023 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
30024 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
30025 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
30026 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
30027 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
30028 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
30029 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
30030 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
30031 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
30032 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
30033 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30036 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
30037 networkstatus vote.
30038 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
30039 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
30040 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
30042 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
30043 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
30044 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
30045 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
30047 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
30048 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
30049 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
30050 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30053 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
30054 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
30056 o Documentation changes:
30057 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
30058 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
30060 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
30063 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
30064 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
30065 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
30066 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
30067 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
30068 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
30071 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
30072 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
30073 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
30074 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
30075 the rest of bug 1074.
30076 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
30077 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
30078 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
30079 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
30080 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
30081 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
30082 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30083 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
30084 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
30085 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
30086 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
30087 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
30088 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
30089 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30092 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
30093 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
30094 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
30095 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
30096 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
30097 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
30098 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
30099 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
30100 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
30101 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
30102 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
30103 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
30104 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
30105 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
30107 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
30108 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
30109 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
30110 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
30111 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
30112 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
30114 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
30115 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
30116 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
30117 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
30118 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
30119 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
30120 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
30121 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
30122 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
30123 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
30124 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
30125 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
30126 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
30127 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
30128 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
30129 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
30130 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
30131 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
30132 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
30133 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
30134 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
30135 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
30136 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
30137 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30138 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
30139 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
30141 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
30142 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
30143 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
30144 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
30145 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
30146 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
30148 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
30149 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
30150 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
30152 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
30153 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
30154 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
30155 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
30156 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
30157 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
30158 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
30159 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha.
30160 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
30161 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
30162 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
30163 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
30164 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
30168 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
30169 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
30170 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
30171 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
30172 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
30173 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
30174 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
30175 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
30176 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
30177 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
30178 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
30179 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
30181 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30183 o Minor features (log subsystem):
30184 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
30185 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
30186 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
30188 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
30189 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
30191 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
30192 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
30193 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
30196 o Packaging changes:
30197 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
30198 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
30199 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
30202 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
30203 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
30204 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
30205 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
30206 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
30207 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
30210 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
30211 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
30212 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
30213 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
30214 the rest of bug 1074.
30215 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
30216 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
30217 Found by "piebeer".
30218 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
30219 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
30220 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
30221 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
30222 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
30223 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
30224 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30227 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
30229 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30232 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
30233 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
30234 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
30235 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
30236 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
30237 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
30238 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
30239 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
30240 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
30241 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
30242 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
30244 o Packaging changes:
30245 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
30246 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
30247 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
30248 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
30249 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
30250 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
30253 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
30254 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
30255 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
30256 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
30257 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
30258 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
30261 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
30262 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
30263 Found by "piebeer".
30264 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
30265 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
30266 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
30267 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
30270 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
30272 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
30273 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
30274 Implements ticket 2432.
30277 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
30278 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
30279 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
30282 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
30283 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
30284 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
30285 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
30286 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
30287 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
30289 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
30290 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
30291 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
30292 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
30294 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
30295 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
30296 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
30297 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
30298 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
30299 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
30300 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
30301 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
30303 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
30304 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
30305 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
30306 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
30307 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
30308 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
30309 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
30310 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
30311 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
30312 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
30313 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
30314 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
30315 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
30316 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
30319 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
30320 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
30321 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
30322 bug reported by doorss.
30323 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
30324 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
30325 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
30326 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
30327 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
30329 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
30330 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
30331 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
30332 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
30333 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
30335 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
30336 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30337 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
30339 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
30340 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
30341 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
30342 Automake 1.7 or later.
30343 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
30344 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
30345 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
30346 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
30348 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30349 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
30350 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
30353 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30354 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
30355 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
30356 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
30358 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30359 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
30360 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
30361 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
30362 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
30363 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
30364 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
30365 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
30366 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
30368 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
30369 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
30370 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
30373 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30374 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
30375 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
30376 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
30377 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
30378 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
30379 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
30380 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
30381 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
30382 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
30383 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
30384 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
30385 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
30387 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30388 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
30392 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
30393 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
30394 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
30395 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
30396 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
30398 o Major bugfixes (security):
30399 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
30400 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
30401 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
30403 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
30404 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
30405 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
30406 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
30407 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
30408 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
30409 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
30410 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
30412 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
30413 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
30414 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
30415 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
30416 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
30417 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
30418 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
30419 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
30420 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
30421 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
30422 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
30423 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
30424 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
30425 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
30428 o Minor bugfixes (other):
30429 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
30430 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
30431 bug reported by doorss.
30432 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
30433 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
30434 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
30435 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
30436 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
30438 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
30439 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
30440 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
30441 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
30442 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
30443 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
30444 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
30445 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
30446 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
30449 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30450 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
30453 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
30454 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
30455 Automake 1.7 or later.
30458 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
30459 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
30460 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
30461 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
30462 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
30465 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
30466 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
30467 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
30468 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
30469 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
30470 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
30471 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
30472 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
30473 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
30474 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
30475 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
30477 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
30478 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
30479 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
30480 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
30482 o Directory authority changes:
30483 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
30486 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
30487 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
30488 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
30489 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
30490 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
30491 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
30492 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
30493 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
30494 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
30497 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30498 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
30499 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
30500 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
30501 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
30502 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
30503 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
30504 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
30505 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
30506 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
30510 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
30511 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
30512 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
30513 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
30517 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
30518 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
30519 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
30520 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
30522 o Directory authority changes:
30523 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
30526 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30529 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
30530 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
30531 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
30532 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
30533 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
30536 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
30537 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
30538 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
30539 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
30540 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
30541 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
30542 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
30543 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
30544 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
30545 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
30546 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
30547 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
30548 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
30549 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
30550 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
30551 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
30552 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
30553 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
30554 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
30555 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
30556 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
30557 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
30558 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
30561 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
30562 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
30563 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
30564 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
30566 o New directory authorities:
30567 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
30571 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
30572 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
30573 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
30575 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
30576 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
30577 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
30578 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
30579 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
30580 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
30582 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
30583 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
30584 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
30587 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
30588 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
30589 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
30590 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
30591 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
30592 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
30593 Patch from mingw-san.
30596 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
30597 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
30598 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
30599 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
30600 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
30601 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
30604 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
30605 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
30606 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
30609 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
30610 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
30611 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
30612 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
30613 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
30616 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
30617 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
30618 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
30619 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
30620 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
30621 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
30622 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
30623 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
30624 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
30627 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
30628 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
30629 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
30630 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
30631 to a stable release.
30634 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
30635 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
30636 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
30637 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
30638 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
30639 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
30640 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
30641 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
30642 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
30643 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
30644 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
30645 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
30646 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
30647 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
30648 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
30649 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
30650 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
30651 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
30652 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
30653 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
30654 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
30655 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
30656 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
30657 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
30658 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
30659 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
30660 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
30661 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
30662 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
30663 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
30664 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
30667 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
30668 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
30669 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
30670 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
30671 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
30672 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
30673 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
30674 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
30675 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
30676 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
30677 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
30678 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
30679 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
30680 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
30681 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
30682 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
30683 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
30685 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
30686 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
30687 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
30688 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
30689 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
30691 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
30692 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
30693 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
30694 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
30697 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
30698 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
30699 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
30700 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
30701 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
30702 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
30703 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
30704 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30706 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30707 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
30708 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
30709 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
30710 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
30711 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
30712 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
30713 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
30714 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
30715 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
30716 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
30717 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
30718 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
30719 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
30720 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
30723 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
30724 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
30725 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
30726 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
30727 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
30728 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
30729 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
30730 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
30731 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
30734 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
30735 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
30736 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
30737 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
30738 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
30740 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
30741 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
30742 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
30743 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
30744 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
30745 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
30746 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
30747 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
30748 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
30749 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
30750 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
30751 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
30752 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
30753 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
30755 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
30756 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
30758 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
30759 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
30760 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
30761 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
30762 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
30763 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
30764 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
30765 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
30766 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
30767 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
30768 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
30769 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
30770 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
30771 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
30772 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
30773 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
30774 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
30775 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
30777 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
30778 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
30779 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
30780 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
30781 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
30782 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
30783 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
30784 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
30785 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
30786 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
30787 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
30788 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
30789 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
30791 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
30792 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
30793 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
30794 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
30797 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
30798 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
30799 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
30800 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
30801 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
30802 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
30803 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
30804 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
30805 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
30806 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
30807 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
30808 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
30809 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
30810 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
30811 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
30812 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
30813 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
30814 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
30815 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
30818 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
30819 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
30820 based on the time during which we were active and not in
30821 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
30822 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
30823 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
30824 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
30825 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
30827 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
30828 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
30829 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
30830 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
30831 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
30832 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
30833 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
30834 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
30835 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
30836 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
30839 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
30840 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
30841 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
30842 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
30844 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
30845 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
30846 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
30847 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
30848 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
30849 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
30850 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
30851 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
30852 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
30853 the longest-lived bug prize.
30854 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
30855 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
30856 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
30857 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
30858 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
30859 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
30861 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
30862 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
30863 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
30864 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
30865 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
30866 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
30870 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30871 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
30872 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
30873 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
30874 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
30875 got suppressed since the last warning.
30876 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
30877 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
30878 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
30879 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
30880 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
30881 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
30882 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
30883 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
30884 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
30885 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
30886 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
30887 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
30888 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
30889 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
30890 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
30891 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
30892 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
30893 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
30894 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
30896 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
30897 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
30898 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
30900 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
30901 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
30902 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
30903 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
30904 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
30905 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
30906 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
30907 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
30908 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
30909 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
30910 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
30911 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
30912 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
30913 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
30914 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
30916 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
30917 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
30918 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
30919 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
30920 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
30921 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30922 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
30924 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
30925 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
30926 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
30927 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
30928 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
30931 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
30932 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
30933 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
30934 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
30935 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
30936 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
30937 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
30938 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
30939 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
30940 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
30941 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
30942 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
30943 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
30944 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
30945 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
30946 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
30947 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
30948 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
30951 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
30954 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
30955 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
30956 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
30957 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
30958 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
30962 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
30963 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
30964 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
30965 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
30966 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
30967 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
30968 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
30969 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
30970 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
30971 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
30972 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
30973 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
30974 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
30975 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
30976 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
30977 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
30978 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
30981 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
30982 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
30983 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
30984 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
30985 they first get the Guard flag.
30986 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
30990 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30991 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
30992 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
30993 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
30994 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
30995 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
30996 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
30997 Patch from mingw-san.
30998 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
30999 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
31001 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
31002 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
31003 Implements enhancement 1790.
31005 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
31006 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
31007 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
31008 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
31009 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
31010 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
31011 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
31012 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
31013 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
31014 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
31015 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
31016 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
31017 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
31018 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
31019 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
31020 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
31021 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
31022 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
31023 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
31024 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
31026 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
31027 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
31028 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
31029 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
31030 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
31031 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
31032 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
31033 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
31034 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
31035 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
31036 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
31037 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
31038 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
31040 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
31041 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
31042 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
31043 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
31044 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
31045 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
31047 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
31048 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
31049 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
31050 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
31051 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
31052 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
31053 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
31054 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
31055 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
31056 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
31057 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
31058 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
31060 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
31061 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
31062 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
31063 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
31064 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
31065 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
31066 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
31068 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
31070 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
31071 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
31072 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
31073 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
31074 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
31075 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
31077 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31078 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
31079 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
31080 structures and defines in or.h for now.
31081 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
31082 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
31083 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
31084 statistics code to be more easily tested.
31085 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
31086 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
31087 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
31090 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
31091 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
31092 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
31093 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
31094 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
31095 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
31099 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
31100 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
31101 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
31102 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
31103 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
31104 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
31105 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
31106 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
31107 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
31108 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
31109 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
31110 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
31111 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
31113 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
31114 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
31115 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
31116 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
31117 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
31118 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
31119 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
31120 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
31121 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
31122 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
31123 can be controlled by the consensus.
31126 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
31127 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
31128 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
31129 more accurate data for many African countries.
31130 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
31131 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
31132 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
31133 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
31134 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
31135 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
31136 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
31137 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
31138 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
31139 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
31140 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
31141 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
31143 o New directory authorities:
31144 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
31148 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
31149 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
31150 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
31151 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
31152 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
31153 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
31154 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
31155 what should go in a patch.
31156 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
31157 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
31158 over our stored history.
31159 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
31160 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
31161 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
31162 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
31163 file. Fixes bug 1296.
31164 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
31165 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
31166 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
31170 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
31172 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
31173 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
31174 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
31175 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
31176 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
31177 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
31178 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
31179 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
31180 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
31181 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
31182 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
31183 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
31184 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
31185 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
31186 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
31187 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
31188 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
31189 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
31190 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
31191 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
31192 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
31193 two-hop circuits are actually created.
31194 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
31195 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
31196 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
31197 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
31200 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
31201 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
31202 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
31203 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
31204 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
31206 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
31207 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
31210 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
31211 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
31212 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
31213 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
31214 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
31215 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
31216 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
31217 their directory fetches over TLS).
31218 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
31219 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
31220 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
31221 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
31222 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
31223 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
31224 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
31225 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
31228 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
31229 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
31233 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
31234 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31235 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
31236 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
31237 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
31238 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
31239 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31242 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
31243 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
31244 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
31245 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
31246 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
31249 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
31250 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
31251 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
31252 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
31253 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
31254 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
31255 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
31256 their directory fetches over TLS).
31259 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
31260 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
31262 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
31263 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
31264 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
31265 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
31266 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
31267 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
31268 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
31269 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
31270 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
31271 hour of their uptime.
31274 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
31275 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
31276 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
31280 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
31281 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
31282 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
31283 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
31284 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
31285 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
31287 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
31288 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
31289 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
31291 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
31292 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
31296 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
31297 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
31298 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
31302 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
31303 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
31304 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
31307 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
31308 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
31309 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
31310 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
31311 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
31312 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
31313 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
31314 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
31315 about the option without breaking older ones.
31316 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
31317 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
31318 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
31319 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
31322 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
31323 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
31324 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
31325 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
31327 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
31328 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
31329 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
31332 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
31333 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
31335 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
31336 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
31337 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
31338 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
31339 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
31340 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
31341 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
31342 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
31343 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
31344 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
31345 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
31348 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
31349 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31350 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
31351 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
31352 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
31353 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
31354 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31357 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
31358 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
31359 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
31360 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
31361 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
31362 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
31365 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
31366 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
31367 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
31368 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
31370 o Major features (performance):
31371 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
31372 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
31373 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
31374 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
31375 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
31376 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
31377 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
31379 o Minor features (performance):
31380 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
31381 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
31382 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
31383 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
31384 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
31388 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
31389 speeds up the build considerably.
31391 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
31392 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
31393 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
31394 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
31395 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
31396 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
31397 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
31398 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
31400 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
31401 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
31402 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
31404 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
31405 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
31406 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
31407 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
31409 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31410 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
31411 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
31412 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
31413 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
31414 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
31417 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
31418 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
31419 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
31421 o Directory authority changes:
31422 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
31423 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
31424 service directory authority) from the list.
31427 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
31428 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
31429 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
31430 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
31431 libraries in a security patch.
31432 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
31433 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
31434 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
31435 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
31437 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
31438 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
31439 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
31440 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
31441 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
31442 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
31443 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
31446 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
31447 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
31448 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
31449 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
31450 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
31451 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
31452 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
31453 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
31454 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
31455 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
31456 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
31457 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
31458 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
31460 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
31461 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
31462 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
31463 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
31464 control-spec.txt said they were.
31465 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
31466 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
31467 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
31468 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
31469 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
31471 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31472 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
31473 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
31474 produce nicer HTML.
31475 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
31476 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
31477 iPhone SDK versions.
31478 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
31479 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
31480 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
31481 projects directory in svn.
31482 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
31483 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
31484 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
31485 high latency links.
31488 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
31489 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
31490 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
31492 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
31493 to the circuit build timeout.
31494 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
31495 arguments we do not recognize.
31496 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
31497 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
31498 open() without checking it.
31501 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
31502 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
31503 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
31504 several minor potential security bugs.
31507 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
31508 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
31509 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
31510 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
31511 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
31512 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
31513 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
31516 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
31517 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
31519 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
31520 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
31521 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
31522 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
31526 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
31527 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
31531 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
31532 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
31533 customized patches to run/build.
31536 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
31537 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
31538 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
31541 o Major bugfixes (performance):
31542 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
31543 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
31544 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
31545 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
31546 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
31547 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
31548 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
31551 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
31552 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
31553 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
31554 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
31555 libraries in a security patch.
31556 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
31557 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
31558 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
31559 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
31562 o Directory authority changes:
31563 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
31564 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
31565 service directory authority) from the list.
31568 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
31569 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
31572 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
31573 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
31574 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
31575 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
31576 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
31579 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
31580 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
31581 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
31585 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occurred during the
31586 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
31587 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
31588 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
31589 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
31592 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
31593 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
31594 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
31598 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
31599 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
31600 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
31601 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
31602 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
31604 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
31605 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
31607 o Directory authority changes:
31608 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
31611 o Major features (performance):
31612 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
31613 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
31614 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
31615 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
31616 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
31617 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
31618 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
31619 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
31620 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
31621 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
31622 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
31623 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
31624 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
31626 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
31627 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
31628 but never per-conn write limits.
31629 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
31630 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
31631 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
31632 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
31634 o Major features (relay selection options):
31635 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
31636 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
31637 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
31638 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
31639 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
31640 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
31641 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
31643 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
31644 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
31646 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
31647 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
31648 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
31649 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
31650 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
31651 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
31652 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
31653 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
31654 the network changes.
31657 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
31658 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
31659 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31662 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
31663 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
31664 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
31665 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
31666 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
31667 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
31668 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
31669 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
31670 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
31671 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
31672 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
31673 generated while acting as a relay.
31674 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
31675 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
31676 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
31677 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
31678 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
31679 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
31681 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
31682 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
31683 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
31684 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
31685 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
31686 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
31689 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
31690 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
31691 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
31693 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
31694 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
31695 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
31697 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
31698 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
31700 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
31701 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
31702 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
31704 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
31705 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
31708 o Minor bugfixes (other):
31709 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
31710 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
31711 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
31712 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
31713 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
31714 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
31715 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
31716 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
31718 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
31721 o Removed features:
31722 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
31723 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
31724 hidden service usage.
31727 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
31728 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
31729 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
31730 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
31731 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
31733 o Directory authority changes:
31734 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
31738 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
31739 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
31740 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31743 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
31744 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
31745 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
31746 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
31747 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
31750 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
31751 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
31752 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
31753 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
31754 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
31755 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
31756 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
31759 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
31760 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
31761 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
31762 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
31763 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
31764 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
31766 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
31767 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
31770 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
31771 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
31772 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
31773 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
31774 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
31775 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
31778 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
31779 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
31780 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
31782 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
31783 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
31784 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
31785 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
31786 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
31787 download consensus + microdescriptors".
31788 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
31789 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
31790 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
31791 hash algorithm in the future.
31792 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
31793 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
31794 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
31795 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
31796 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
31797 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
31798 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
31799 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
31800 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
31803 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
31804 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
31805 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
31806 won't work unless we say we are.
31809 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
31810 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
31811 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
31812 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
31813 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
31814 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
31815 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
31816 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
31817 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
31818 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
31819 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
31820 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
31821 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
31822 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
31823 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
31824 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
31825 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
31826 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
31827 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
31828 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
31829 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
31830 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
31833 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
31834 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
31835 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
31836 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
31838 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
31839 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
31841 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
31842 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
31843 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
31844 in the Vidalia Settings window.
31847 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
31848 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
31849 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
31850 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
31851 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
31853 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
31854 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
31856 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
31857 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
31858 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
31861 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
31862 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
31863 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
31865 o New directory authorities:
31866 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
31868 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
31871 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
31872 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
31874 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
31875 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
31876 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
31877 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
31878 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
31879 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
31880 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31881 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
31882 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
31883 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
31884 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
31885 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
31886 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
31887 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
31888 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
31889 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
31890 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
31892 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
31893 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
31894 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
31896 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
31897 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
31901 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
31902 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
31903 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
31904 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
31905 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
31908 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
31909 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
31912 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
31914 o Directory authorities:
31915 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
31919 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
31920 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
31921 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
31922 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
31923 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
31926 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
31927 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
31928 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
31929 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
31931 o New directory authorities:
31932 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
31935 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
31936 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
31937 SSL handshake issues.
31938 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
31939 during the TLS handshake.
31940 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
31941 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
31942 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
31943 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
31944 none of which are very big.
31947 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
31949 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
31950 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
31951 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
31952 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
31953 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
31954 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
31955 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
31956 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
31959 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31960 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
31961 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
31962 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
31963 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
31966 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
31967 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
31970 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
31971 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
31974 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
31975 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
31976 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
31979 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
31980 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
31981 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
31982 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
31983 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
31984 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
31987 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
31988 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
31989 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
31990 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
31991 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
31992 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
31993 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
31994 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
31995 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
31996 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
31997 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
31998 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
31999 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
32000 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
32001 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
32002 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
32003 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
32004 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
32007 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
32008 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
32012 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
32013 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
32014 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
32015 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
32016 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
32017 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
32018 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
32019 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
32020 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
32021 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
32022 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32023 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
32024 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
32025 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
32026 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
32027 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
32028 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
32029 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
32030 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
32031 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
32032 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
32034 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
32035 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
32036 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
32037 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32038 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
32039 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
32041 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
32042 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
32043 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
32046 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
32047 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
32048 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
32049 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
32050 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
32051 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
32054 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
32055 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
32056 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
32057 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
32058 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
32061 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
32062 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
32063 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
32066 o New directory authorities:
32067 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
32071 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
32072 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
32073 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
32074 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
32075 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
32078 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
32079 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
32080 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
32081 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
32082 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
32085 o New options for gathering stats safely:
32086 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
32087 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
32088 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
32089 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
32090 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
32091 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
32092 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
32093 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
32094 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
32096 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
32097 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
32098 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
32099 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
32101 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
32102 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
32103 their extra-info documents.
32106 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
32107 source files Tor was built with.
32108 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
32109 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
32110 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
32111 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
32112 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
32113 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
32115 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
32116 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
32117 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
32118 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
32119 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
32121 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
32122 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
32125 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
32126 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
32127 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
32128 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
32129 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
32131 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
32132 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
32134 o Deprecated and removed features:
32135 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
32136 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
32137 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
32138 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
32139 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
32140 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
32141 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
32142 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
32144 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
32145 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
32146 via application-level web tricks.
32148 o Packaging changes:
32149 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
32150 installer bundles. See
32151 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
32152 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
32153 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
32154 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
32155 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
32156 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
32157 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
32158 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
32159 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
32160 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
32161 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
32162 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
32165 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
32166 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
32167 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
32170 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
32171 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
32172 part of patch provided by "optimist".
32175 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
32176 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
32177 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
32178 and confuse fewer users.
32181 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
32182 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
32183 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
32184 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
32185 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
32186 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
32187 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
32190 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
32191 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
32192 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
32193 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
32194 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
32195 other features and bug fixes.
32198 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
32201 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
32202 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
32203 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
32204 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
32205 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
32208 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
32209 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
32210 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
32211 failure message (oops).
32214 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
32215 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
32216 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
32217 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
32221 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
32222 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
32223 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
32224 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
32225 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
32226 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
32227 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32228 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
32229 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
32230 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
32231 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
32232 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
32233 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
32234 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
32235 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
32238 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
32239 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
32240 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
32241 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
32242 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
32243 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
32244 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
32245 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
32246 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
32247 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
32248 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
32249 Workaround for bug 1024.
32250 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
32254 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
32255 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
32256 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
32259 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
32261 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
32262 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
32263 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
32264 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
32265 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
32268 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
32269 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
32270 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
32271 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
32272 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
32273 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
32274 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
32275 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
32276 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
32277 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
32280 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
32281 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
32282 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
32283 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
32284 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
32285 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
32286 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
32287 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
32290 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
32291 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
32292 a bunch of minor bugs.
32295 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
32296 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
32297 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
32299 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
32300 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
32301 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
32302 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
32304 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
32308 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
32309 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
32310 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
32312 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32313 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
32315 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
32316 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
32318 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
32319 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
32320 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
32321 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
32322 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
32323 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
32324 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
32325 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
32327 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
32328 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
32329 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
32331 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
32332 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
32333 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
32334 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
32335 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
32339 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
32340 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
32341 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
32342 of more minor bugs.
32344 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32345 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
32346 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
32347 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
32349 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32350 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
32351 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
32352 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
32353 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
32354 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
32355 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
32356 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
32357 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
32358 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
32359 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
32360 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32361 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
32362 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
32363 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
32364 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
32365 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
32367 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
32368 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
32369 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
32370 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32372 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
32373 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
32374 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
32377 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
32378 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
32379 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
32380 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
32381 addresses to fall out of the directory.
32384 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
32385 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
32386 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
32387 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
32389 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
32390 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
32391 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
32392 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
32393 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
32394 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
32395 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
32396 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
32397 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
32398 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
32399 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
32400 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
32401 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
32402 patch by Sebastian.
32403 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
32404 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
32407 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
32408 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
32409 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
32410 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
32411 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
32412 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
32414 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
32415 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
32416 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
32417 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
32418 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
32420 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
32423 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
32424 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
32426 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
32427 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
32428 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32429 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32430 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
32431 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
32433 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
32434 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32435 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
32436 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
32437 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
32438 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
32439 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
32440 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
32441 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
32442 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
32443 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
32444 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
32448 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
32449 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
32450 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
32453 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
32454 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
32455 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32457 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
32458 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
32459 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
32460 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
32461 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
32462 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
32463 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
32464 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
32465 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
32466 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
32467 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
32468 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
32469 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
32470 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
32471 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
32472 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
32473 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
32474 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
32475 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
32476 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
32477 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
32478 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
32479 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
32480 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
32481 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
32482 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
32484 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
32485 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
32486 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
32487 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
32488 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
32489 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
32490 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
32491 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
32492 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
32493 of 0. Suggested by lark.
32495 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
32496 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
32497 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
32498 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
32499 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
32502 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
32504 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
32505 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
32506 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
32507 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
32510 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
32511 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
32512 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
32513 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
32514 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
32516 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
32517 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
32518 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
32519 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
32522 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
32523 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
32524 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
32525 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
32526 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
32527 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
32528 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
32529 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
32532 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
32533 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
32534 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
32535 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
32538 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
32539 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
32540 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
32541 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
32542 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
32543 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
32546 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
32547 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
32548 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
32549 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
32550 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
32551 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
32554 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
32555 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
32556 reported by Matt Edman.
32557 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
32559 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
32560 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
32561 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
32562 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
32564 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
32565 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
32566 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
32567 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
32568 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
32569 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
32570 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
32571 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
32572 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
32573 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
32574 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
32575 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
32576 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
32577 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
32578 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
32579 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
32580 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
32581 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
32582 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32585 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
32586 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
32587 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
32588 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
32591 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
32592 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
32593 the letter of C99's alias rules.
32596 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
32597 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
32598 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
32599 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
32601 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
32602 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
32603 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
32606 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
32607 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
32610 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
32611 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
32612 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
32613 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
32614 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
32615 reported by "wood".
32616 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
32617 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
32618 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
32619 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
32620 identify a connection.
32621 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
32622 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
32623 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
32624 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
32625 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
32626 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
32627 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
32628 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
32629 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
32630 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
32632 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
32633 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
32634 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
32635 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
32636 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
32637 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
32638 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
32641 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
32642 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
32644 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
32645 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
32646 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
32647 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
32648 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
32649 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
32650 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
32651 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
32653 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
32654 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
32655 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
32656 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
32657 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
32658 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
32659 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
32660 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
32661 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
32662 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
32663 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
32664 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
32665 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
32666 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
32667 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
32668 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
32669 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
32670 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
32671 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
32672 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
32673 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
32674 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
32675 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
32676 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
32677 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
32678 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
32679 840. Patch from rovv.
32680 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
32681 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
32682 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
32684 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
32685 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
32686 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
32687 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
32688 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
32689 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
32690 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
32692 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
32693 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
32694 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
32697 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
32698 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
32700 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
32701 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
32702 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
32703 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
32704 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
32705 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
32706 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
32707 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
32708 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
32710 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
32712 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
32713 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
32717 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
32718 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
32719 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
32720 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
32721 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
32722 have had some time to upgrade.)
32725 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
32726 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
32729 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
32730 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
32731 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
32732 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
32733 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
32736 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
32737 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
32739 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
32740 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
32741 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
32742 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
32743 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
32744 entirely. Patch from coderman.
32747 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
32748 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
32749 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
32750 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
32751 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
32752 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
32753 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
32757 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
32758 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
32759 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
32760 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
32761 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
32762 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
32763 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
32766 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
32767 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
32768 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
32769 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
32770 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
32772 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
32773 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
32774 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
32775 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
32776 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
32777 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
32778 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
32779 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
32780 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
32781 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
32785 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
32786 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
32787 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
32789 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
32790 without support for deprecated functions.
32791 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
32793 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32794 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
32795 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
32796 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
32797 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
32798 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
32799 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
32800 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
32801 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
32802 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
32803 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
32804 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
32805 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
32806 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
32807 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
32808 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
32809 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
32810 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
32811 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
32812 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
32813 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
32814 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
32815 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
32817 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
32818 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
32819 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
32820 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
32821 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
32822 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
32824 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
32825 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
32826 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
32827 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
32828 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
32830 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
32831 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
32832 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
32834 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
32835 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
32838 o Deprecated and removed features:
32839 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
32840 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
32841 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
32844 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32845 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
32846 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
32847 with log.h on Android.
32848 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
32849 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
32852 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
32853 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
32855 o New directory authorities:
32856 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
32860 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
32861 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
32862 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
32863 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
32864 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
32865 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32868 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
32869 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
32870 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
32871 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
32872 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
32873 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
32874 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
32875 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
32876 reported by "wood".
32877 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
32878 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
32879 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
32880 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
32883 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
32884 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
32886 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
32887 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
32888 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
32889 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
32890 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
32891 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
32892 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
32893 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
32894 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
32895 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
32896 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
32897 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
32898 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
32899 Implements proposal 148.
32900 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
32901 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
32902 system to do it for us.
32903 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
32904 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
32905 this fix will be slightly helpful.
32906 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
32907 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
32908 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
32909 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
32910 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
32911 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
32912 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
32913 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
32914 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
32917 o Minor features (controller):
32918 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
32919 been fetched and validated.
32920 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
32921 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
32922 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
32923 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
32924 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
32925 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
32928 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
32929 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
32930 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
32931 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
32932 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
32934 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
32935 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
32936 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
32937 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
32938 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
32939 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
32940 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
32941 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
32942 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
32944 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
32945 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
32946 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
32947 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
32948 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
32949 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
32950 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
32951 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
32953 o Deprecated and removed features:
32954 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
32956 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
32957 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
32958 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
32960 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32961 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
32962 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
32964 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
32965 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
32966 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
32967 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
32968 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
32969 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
32972 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
32973 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
32974 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
32975 fixes a variety of other issues.
32978 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
32979 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
32980 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
32981 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
32984 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
32985 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
32986 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
32987 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
32990 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
32991 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32992 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
32996 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
32998 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
32999 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
33000 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
33001 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
33002 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
33003 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
33004 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
33006 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
33007 rest, and don't automatically fail.
33008 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
33009 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
33010 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
33011 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
33013 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
33014 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
33015 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
33016 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
33017 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
33018 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
33019 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
33020 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
33021 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
33022 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
33024 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
33028 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
33029 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
33030 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
33032 o Minor features (controller):
33033 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
33037 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
33038 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
33039 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
33040 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
33041 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
33042 variety of other issues.
33045 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
33046 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
33047 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
33048 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
33049 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
33050 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
33051 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
33052 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
33053 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
33054 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
33055 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
33056 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
33059 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
33060 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33062 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
33063 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
33064 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
33065 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
33066 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
33067 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
33068 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
33069 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
33070 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
33071 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
33072 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
33073 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
33074 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
33075 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
33076 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
33080 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
33081 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
33082 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
33083 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
33084 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
33085 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
33086 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
33087 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
33088 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
33089 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
33090 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
33091 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
33092 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
33093 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
33094 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
33095 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
33096 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
33097 list. It has been gone for many months.
33098 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
33099 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
33100 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
33103 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
33104 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
33105 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
33108 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
33109 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
33110 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
33111 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
33112 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
33113 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
33114 variety of other issues.
33117 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
33118 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
33119 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
33120 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
33121 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
33122 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
33123 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
33124 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
33125 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
33126 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
33127 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
33128 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
33129 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
33130 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
33133 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
33134 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
33135 Suggested by Lucky Green.
33136 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
33137 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
33138 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
33139 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
33140 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
33141 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
33143 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
33144 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
33146 o Hidden service performance improvements:
33147 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
33148 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
33149 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
33150 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
33151 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
33152 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
33153 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
33154 faster after restart.
33157 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
33158 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
33159 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
33160 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
33161 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
33162 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
33163 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
33164 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
33165 840. Patch from rovv.
33166 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
33167 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
33168 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
33169 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
33170 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
33171 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
33172 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
33173 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
33174 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
33176 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
33177 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
33178 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
33179 have already been marked for close.
33180 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
33181 introduction points.
33182 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
33183 memory performance during directory parsing.
33184 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
33185 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
33186 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
33187 because of a pending download.
33190 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
33191 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
33192 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
33193 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
33196 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
33197 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
33198 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
33199 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
33200 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
33201 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
33202 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
33203 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
33204 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
33205 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
33206 lookups more reliable.
33207 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
33208 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
33209 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
33210 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
33211 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
33212 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
33213 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
33216 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
33217 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
33218 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
33219 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
33220 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
33221 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
33222 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
33223 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
33224 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
33225 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
33226 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
33228 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
33229 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
33230 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
33231 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
33232 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
33233 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
33234 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
33235 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
33236 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
33239 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
33240 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
33241 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
33242 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
33243 locked down these days.
33244 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
33245 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
33246 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
33247 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
33248 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
33250 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
33251 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
33252 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
33253 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
33254 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
33255 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
33256 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
33257 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
33258 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
33259 people find host:port too confusing.
33260 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
33261 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
33262 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
33265 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
33267 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
33268 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
33269 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
33270 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
33271 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
33273 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
33274 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
33275 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
33276 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
33277 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
33278 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
33279 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
33280 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
33281 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
33282 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
33283 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
33284 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
33286 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
33287 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
33288 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
33289 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
33290 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
33291 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
33292 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
33293 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
33294 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
33296 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
33297 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
33298 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
33299 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
33300 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
33301 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
33302 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
33303 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
33304 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
33305 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
33306 bug 820, reported by seeess.
33307 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
33308 list. It has been gone for many months.
33310 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
33311 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
33312 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
33313 actual mistakes we're making here.
33314 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
33315 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
33316 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
33317 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
33320 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
33321 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
33322 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
33323 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
33326 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
33327 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
33328 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
33329 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
33330 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
33331 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
33333 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
33334 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
33335 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
33336 pointed out by rovv.
33339 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
33340 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33341 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
33342 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
33343 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
33344 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
33345 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
33346 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
33347 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
33348 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33349 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
33350 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
33351 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
33352 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
33353 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
33354 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
33355 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
33356 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
33357 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
33358 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
33359 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
33362 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
33363 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
33364 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
33365 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
33366 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
33367 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
33368 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
33371 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
33373 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
33374 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
33375 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
33376 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
33377 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
33378 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
33379 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
33381 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
33382 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
33383 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
33384 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
33385 known descriptor before building circuits.
33387 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
33388 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
33389 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
33390 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
33391 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
33392 identify a connection.
33393 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
33394 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
33395 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
33397 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
33398 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
33399 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
33400 pointed out by rovv.
33403 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
33404 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33405 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
33406 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
33407 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
33408 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
33409 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
33410 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
33411 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
33412 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
33413 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
33414 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
33415 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
33416 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
33417 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33420 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
33421 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
33422 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
33423 answer sections match.
33424 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
33425 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
33428 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
33429 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
33432 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
33433 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
33434 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
33436 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
33437 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
33438 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
33441 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
33442 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
33443 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
33444 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
33447 o Removed features:
33448 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
33449 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
33452 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
33453 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
33454 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
33455 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
33456 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
33457 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
33459 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
33460 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
33461 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
33464 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
33465 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
33466 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
33467 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
33468 be sent using an "early" cell.
33471 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
33472 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
33473 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
33474 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
33475 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
33476 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
33477 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
33480 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
33481 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
33482 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
33483 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
33484 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
33485 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
33486 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
33487 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
33488 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
33489 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
33490 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
33491 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
33492 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
33493 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
33494 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
33495 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
33498 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
33499 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
33500 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
33501 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
33502 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
33503 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
33504 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
33505 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
33506 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
33508 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
33509 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
33510 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
33511 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
33512 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
33515 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
33516 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
33517 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
33518 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
33520 o Removed features:
33521 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
33522 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
33526 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
33528 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
33529 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
33530 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
33533 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
33534 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
33535 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
33538 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
33539 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
33540 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
33541 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
33542 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33543 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
33544 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
33545 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
33546 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33547 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
33548 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
33549 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
33550 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
33551 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
33552 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
33553 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
33554 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
33555 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
33556 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
33557 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
33558 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
33559 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
33560 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
33563 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
33564 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
33566 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
33567 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
33568 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
33569 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
33570 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
33571 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
33572 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
33574 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
33575 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
33576 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
33577 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
33578 found by Geoff Goodell.
33581 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
33582 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
33583 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
33584 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
33585 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
33586 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
33589 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
33590 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
33591 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
33594 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
33595 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
33596 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
33597 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
33598 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33599 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
33600 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
33601 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
33602 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33603 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
33604 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
33605 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
33606 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
33607 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
33610 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
33611 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
33612 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
33614 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
33615 fingerprints with or without space.
33616 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
33617 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
33618 partway through and wants to catch up.
33619 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
33620 state to start out in.
33623 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
33624 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
33625 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
33626 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
33627 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
33630 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
33631 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
33632 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
33633 some of the connection attempts fail.
33634 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
33635 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
33636 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
33637 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
33638 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
33639 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
33641 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
33642 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
33643 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
33646 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
33647 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
33648 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
33649 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
33650 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
33651 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
33652 and adds a variety of smaller features.
33655 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
33656 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
33657 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
33658 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
33660 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
33661 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
33662 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
33663 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
33665 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
33666 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
33667 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
33668 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
33669 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
33670 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
33671 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
33674 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
33675 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
33676 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
33677 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
33678 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
33680 o Memory fixes and improvements:
33681 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
33682 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
33683 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
33684 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
33685 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
33686 on a typical directory cache.
33687 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
33688 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
33689 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
33690 and may reduce fragmentation.
33691 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
33692 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
33693 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
33695 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
33696 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
33697 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
33699 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
33700 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
33704 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
33705 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
33706 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
33707 done that for a long time.
33708 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
33709 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
33710 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
33711 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
33714 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
33715 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
33716 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
33717 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
33718 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
33719 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
33721 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
33722 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
33723 output to messages of warning and error severity.
33724 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
33725 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
33726 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
33727 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
33728 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
33729 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
33730 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
33731 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
33732 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
33733 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
33734 directory requests we should expect to see.
33735 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
33737 - Lots of new unit tests.
33738 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
33739 two parallel lists in lockstep.
33742 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
33743 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
33744 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
33747 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
33748 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
33749 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
33750 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
33751 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
33752 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
33753 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
33756 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
33757 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
33758 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
33762 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
33763 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
33764 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
33767 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
33768 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
33769 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
33771 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
33772 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
33774 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
33775 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
33776 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
33777 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
33778 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33779 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
33780 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
33782 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
33783 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
33784 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
33785 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
33786 - Fix compile on Windows.
33789 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
33790 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
33791 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
33792 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
33793 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
33794 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
33795 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
33798 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
33799 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
33802 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
33803 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
33804 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
33805 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
33807 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
33808 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
33809 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
33812 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
33813 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
33814 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
33815 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
33819 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
33820 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
33821 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
33822 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
33824 o Major security fixes:
33825 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
33826 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
33827 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
33828 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
33829 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
33832 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
33833 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33836 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
33837 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
33840 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
33841 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
33844 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
33845 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
33846 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
33849 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
33850 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33853 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
33854 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
33855 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
33856 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
33857 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
33859 o New directory authorities:
33860 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
33861 it has been down for months.
33862 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
33866 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
33867 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
33869 o Minor features (security):
33870 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
33871 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
33872 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
33875 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
33876 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
33877 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
33878 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
33879 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
33880 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
33881 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
33882 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
33883 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
33885 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
33886 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
33887 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
33888 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
33889 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
33890 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
33891 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33892 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
33893 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
33895 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
33896 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
33897 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
33898 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
33899 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
33900 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
33901 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
33902 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
33903 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
33904 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
33905 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33906 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
33907 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
33908 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
33909 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
33910 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
33911 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
33912 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
33913 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
33916 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
33917 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
33918 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
33919 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
33922 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
33923 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
33924 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
33925 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
33928 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
33929 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
33930 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
33931 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
33932 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
33935 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
33936 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
33937 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
33938 certain censored countries by default again.
33941 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
33942 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
33943 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
33944 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
33945 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
33946 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
33947 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
33948 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
33950 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
33951 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
33952 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
33953 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
33954 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
33955 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
33956 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
33957 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
33958 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
33959 a directory. Fix from lodger.
33961 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
33962 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
33963 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
33964 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
33965 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
33966 RelayBandwidth* values.
33967 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
33968 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
33969 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
33970 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
33971 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
33972 get_interface_address6().
33973 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
33974 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
33975 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
33977 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
33978 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
33979 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
33980 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33981 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
33982 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
33983 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
33984 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
33985 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
33986 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33989 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
33990 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
33991 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
33994 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
33995 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
33996 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
33997 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
33998 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
34001 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
34002 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
34003 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
34004 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
34005 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
34006 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
34007 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
34008 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
34009 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
34012 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
34013 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
34014 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
34015 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
34018 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
34019 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
34020 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
34021 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
34022 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
34023 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
34024 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
34027 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
34028 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
34029 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
34030 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
34031 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
34032 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
34033 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
34035 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
34036 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
34037 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
34038 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
34039 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
34042 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
34043 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
34044 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
34045 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
34046 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
34047 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
34048 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34049 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
34050 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
34051 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
34052 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
34053 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
34054 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
34055 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
34056 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
34057 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34058 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
34059 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34060 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34061 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
34062 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
34063 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
34064 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
34065 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
34066 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
34067 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
34069 o Minor features (performance):
34070 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
34072 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
34073 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
34074 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
34075 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
34076 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
34077 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
34078 non-system include paths.
34079 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
34080 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
34083 o Minor features (other):
34084 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
34086 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
34087 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
34088 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
34091 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
34092 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
34093 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
34094 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
34096 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
34097 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
34098 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
34099 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
34100 Should fix bug 537.
34101 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
34102 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
34103 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34104 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
34105 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34107 o Minor bugfixes (other):
34108 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
34109 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
34110 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
34111 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
34112 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
34113 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
34114 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
34115 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
34116 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
34117 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
34118 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
34119 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
34120 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
34121 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
34122 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34123 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
34124 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
34125 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
34126 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
34127 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
34128 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
34129 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
34130 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
34131 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
34134 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
34135 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
34136 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
34140 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
34141 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
34142 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
34143 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
34144 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
34147 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
34148 Tor's x509 certificates.
34151 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
34152 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
34153 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34154 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
34155 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
34156 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34158 o Minor features (security):
34159 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
34160 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
34162 o Minor features (directory authority):
34163 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
34164 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
34165 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
34166 bandwidthburst values.
34168 o Minor features (controller):
34169 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
34170 processes from running us out of memory.
34172 o Minor features (misc):
34173 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
34174 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
34175 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
34176 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
34178 o Deprecated features (controller):
34179 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
34180 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
34181 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
34184 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
34185 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
34187 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
34188 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
34189 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34190 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
34191 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
34192 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34193 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
34194 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
34196 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
34197 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34198 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
34199 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34200 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
34201 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
34202 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
34203 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
34205 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
34206 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
34207 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
34208 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
34209 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34210 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
34211 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34212 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
34213 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34214 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
34215 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
34216 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34218 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
34219 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
34221 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
34222 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
34223 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
34224 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
34225 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
34226 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
34229 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
34230 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
34231 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
34232 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
34233 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
34235 o New directory authorities:
34236 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
34240 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
34241 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
34242 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
34243 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
34244 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
34245 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
34246 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
34247 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
34251 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
34252 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
34253 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
34254 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
34255 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
34256 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
34257 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
34258 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
34259 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
34260 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
34263 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
34264 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
34265 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
34266 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
34270 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
34271 the request isn't encrypted.
34272 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
34273 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
34274 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
34275 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
34276 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
34279 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
34280 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
34283 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
34286 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
34287 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
34288 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
34290 o New directory authorities:
34291 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
34294 o Major performance improvements:
34295 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
34296 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
34297 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
34298 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
34299 memory fragmentation.
34302 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
34303 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
34304 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
34305 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
34306 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
34307 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
34308 bodies when they receive them.
34309 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
34310 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
34311 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
34313 o Minor performance improvements:
34314 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
34315 of them were actually distinct.
34316 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
34317 interested in a given message.
34320 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
34321 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
34322 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
34323 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
34324 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
34325 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
34326 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
34327 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
34328 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
34329 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
34330 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
34332 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
34333 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
34334 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
34335 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
34336 this country" and "1 person from this country".
34337 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
34338 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
34339 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
34340 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
34341 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
34343 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
34344 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
34345 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
34347 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
34348 but client versions are not.
34349 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
34350 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
34352 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
34353 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
34354 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
34355 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
34356 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
34358 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
34359 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
34360 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
34363 o Minor features (controller):
34364 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
34365 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
34366 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
34367 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
34369 o Minor features (directory authorities):
34370 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
34371 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
34372 running a test network on a single host.
34373 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
34374 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
34376 o Minor features (bridges):
34377 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
34378 unencrypted connections.
34380 o Minor features (other):
34381 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
34382 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
34383 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
34384 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
34387 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
34388 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
34389 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
34390 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
34393 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
34394 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
34395 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
34396 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
34397 on network address.
34400 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
34401 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
34402 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
34403 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
34404 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
34405 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
34406 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
34407 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
34408 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
34409 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
34410 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
34411 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
34414 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
34415 rebuild our server descriptor.
34416 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
34417 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
34418 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
34419 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
34420 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
34421 nonstandard integer types.
34422 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
34423 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
34424 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
34425 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
34426 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
34428 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
34429 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
34430 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
34431 when they receive them.
34432 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
34433 This includes some 64-bit systems.
34434 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
34435 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
34436 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
34437 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
34438 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
34439 router_get_by_hexdigest().
34440 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
34441 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
34445 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
34446 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
34447 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
34450 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
34451 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
34452 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
34453 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
34454 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
34455 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
34456 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
34457 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34460 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
34461 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
34462 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
34463 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
34465 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
34466 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
34469 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
34470 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
34473 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
34475 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
34476 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
34478 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
34479 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
34480 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
34481 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34482 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
34483 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
34484 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
34485 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
34486 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
34487 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
34491 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
34492 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
34493 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
34496 - Make the unit tests build again.
34497 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
34498 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
34499 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
34500 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
34501 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
34502 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34503 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
34504 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
34505 the next one as a duplicate.
34508 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
34509 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
34510 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
34511 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
34514 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
34515 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
34516 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
34519 o New directory authorities:
34520 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
34524 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
34525 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
34526 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
34527 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
34528 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
34529 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
34530 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
34532 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
34533 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
34535 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
34536 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
34537 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
34538 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
34539 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
34540 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
34542 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
34543 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
34544 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
34545 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
34546 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
34547 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34550 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
34551 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
34552 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
34553 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
34554 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
34555 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
34556 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
34557 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
34558 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
34559 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
34560 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
34561 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
34562 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
34563 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
34564 where Tor is blocked.
34565 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
34566 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
34567 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
34568 to a file periodically.
34569 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
34570 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
34571 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
34575 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
34576 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
34577 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
34578 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
34579 in the relevant networkstatus document.
34580 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
34581 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
34582 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
34583 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
34584 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
34585 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
34586 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
34587 by Karsten Loesing.
34588 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
34589 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
34590 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
34591 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
34592 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
34593 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34594 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
34595 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
34596 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
34597 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34598 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
34599 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
34600 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
34601 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34602 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
34603 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
34604 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
34605 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
34606 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
34607 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34608 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34609 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
34610 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34611 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
34612 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
34613 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
34614 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
34615 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34618 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
34619 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
34620 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
34621 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
34622 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
34623 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
34624 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
34625 even if your DirPort isn't on.
34626 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
34627 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
34628 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
34630 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
34631 multiple controller passwords.
34632 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
34633 router based on the router's purpose.
34634 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
34635 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
34636 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
34637 the approved-routers file.
34640 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
34641 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
34642 well as a few minor bugs.
34645 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
34646 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
34647 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
34649 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
34650 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
34651 rebuild our server descriptor.
34653 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
34654 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
34655 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
34656 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
34657 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
34658 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
34659 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
34660 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
34661 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
34662 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
34664 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
34665 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
34666 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
34667 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
34668 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
34669 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
34670 then be flexible about families.
34673 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
34674 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
34675 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
34679 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
34680 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
34681 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
34682 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
34683 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
34686 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
34687 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
34688 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
34689 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
34690 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34693 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
34694 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
34696 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
34697 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
34698 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
34699 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
34700 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
34701 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
34702 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
34704 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
34705 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
34706 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
34707 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
34710 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
34711 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
34714 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
34715 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
34716 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34719 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
34720 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
34721 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
34722 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
34723 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
34724 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
34725 addresses many more minor issues.
34727 o New directory authorities:
34728 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
34731 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
34732 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
34733 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
34734 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
34736 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
34737 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
34738 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
34739 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
34740 and are reaching it.
34741 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
34742 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
34743 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
34744 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
34745 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
34746 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
34749 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
34750 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
34752 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
34753 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
34754 no longer work for clients.
34755 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
34756 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
34758 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
34759 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
34760 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
34761 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
34762 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
34763 enough directory information to build a circuit.
34764 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
34765 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
34766 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
34767 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
34768 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
34769 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
34771 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
34772 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
34773 requests for all of them.
34774 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
34776 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
34777 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
34778 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
34780 o New requirements:
34781 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
34782 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
34786 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
34787 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
34788 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
34789 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
34790 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
34791 networkstatuses that we already have.
34792 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
34793 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
34794 we start knowing some directory caches.
34795 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
34796 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
34797 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
34798 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
34799 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
34800 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
34801 Good in combination with --hash-password.
34802 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
34803 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
34805 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
34806 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
34807 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
34809 o Minor features (bridges):
34810 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
34811 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
34812 back to trying the bridge directly.
34813 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
34814 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
34816 o Minor features (controller):
34817 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
34818 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
34819 report the value as a "minimum skew."
34822 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
34823 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
34827 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
34828 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
34829 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
34830 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
34831 reported by tup and ioerror.
34832 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
34833 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
34835 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
34836 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
34838 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
34839 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
34840 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
34842 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
34843 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34844 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
34845 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34846 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
34847 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34848 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
34850 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
34851 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
34852 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34854 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
34855 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
34856 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
34857 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
34858 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
34861 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
34862 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
34863 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
34864 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
34865 lists for a few hours each day.
34867 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
34868 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
34869 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
34870 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
34871 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
34872 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
34873 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
34874 rend_process_relay_cell().
34876 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
34877 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
34878 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
34879 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
34880 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
34881 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
34882 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
34883 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
34885 o Major bugfixes (other):
34886 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
34887 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
34888 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
34889 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
34890 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
34891 circuit cannibalization).
34892 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
34893 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
34894 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
34895 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
34896 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
34897 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
34900 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
34901 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
34903 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
34904 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
34905 absent. Resolves bug 467.
34906 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
34907 a way to trigger this remotely.)
34908 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
34909 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
34910 were reporting the dir port.)
34911 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
34912 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
34913 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
34914 the future. Fixes bug 434.
34915 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
34917 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
34918 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
34919 the onion key from getting rotated.
34920 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
34921 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
34922 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
34923 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
34924 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
34925 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
34926 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
34927 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
34928 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
34931 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
34932 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
34933 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
34934 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
34935 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
34936 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
34938 o Major features (directory system):
34939 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
34940 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
34941 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
34942 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
34943 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
34944 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
34945 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
34946 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
34947 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
34948 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
34949 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
34950 Partially implements proposal 122.
34951 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
34952 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
34955 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
34956 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
34957 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
34958 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
34960 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
34961 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
34962 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
34963 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
34964 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
34965 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34966 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
34967 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
34968 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
34970 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
34971 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
34973 - Allow certificates to include an address.
34974 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
34975 and download operations.
34976 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
34977 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
34978 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
34979 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
34980 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
34981 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
34983 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
34984 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
34987 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
34988 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
34989 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
34990 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
34992 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
34993 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
34994 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
34996 o Minor features (performance):
34997 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
34998 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
34999 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
35000 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
35001 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
35002 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
35003 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
35006 o Minor features (compilation):
35007 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
35008 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
35010 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
35011 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
35012 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
35013 stick around indefinitely.
35014 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
35016 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
35017 v3 directory authority.
35018 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
35019 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
35021 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
35022 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
35023 "moria on moria:9031."
35024 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
35025 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
35026 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
35027 - When there's no consensus, we were forming a vote every 30
35028 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
35029 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
35030 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
35031 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
35033 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
35034 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
35035 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
35036 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
35037 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
35038 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
35039 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
35040 downloads than for other types.
35042 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
35043 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
35045 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
35046 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
35047 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35049 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
35050 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
35051 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35052 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
35053 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
35054 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
35055 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
35056 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
35058 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
35059 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
35060 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
35061 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
35062 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
35063 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
35064 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
35065 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
35066 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
35067 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
35068 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
35070 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
35071 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
35074 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
35075 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
35076 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
35077 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
35078 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
35079 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
35080 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
35081 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
35082 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
35083 so that they all take the same named flags.
35086 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
35087 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
35088 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
35091 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
35092 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
35093 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
35094 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
35095 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
35096 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
35098 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
35099 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
35100 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
35101 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
35102 annotations along with descriptors.
35103 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
35104 source, and its purpose.
35105 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
35107 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
35108 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
35109 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
35110 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
35113 o Major features (directory authorities):
35114 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
35116 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
35117 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
35118 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
35119 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
35120 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
35121 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
35123 o Major features (v3 directory system):
35124 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
35125 and download the descriptors listed in them.
35126 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
35127 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
35128 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
35130 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
35131 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
35132 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
35133 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
35136 o Major bugfixes (performance):
35137 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
35138 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
35139 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
35140 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
35142 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
35143 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
35144 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
35145 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
35146 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
35147 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
35149 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
35150 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
35152 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
35153 certificate is requested.
35154 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
35155 certificate requests.
35157 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
35158 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
35159 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
35160 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
35163 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
35164 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
35165 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
35166 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35168 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
35169 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
35171 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
35172 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
35173 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
35174 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
35175 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
35176 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
35177 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
35178 downloads more sensible.
35179 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
35180 another when serving certificates.
35182 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
35183 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
35184 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
35185 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
35187 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
35188 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
35189 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
35191 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
35192 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
35194 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
35195 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
35196 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
35197 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
35198 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
35200 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
35201 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
35202 WARN-severity events.
35203 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
35204 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
35205 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
35207 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
35208 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
35209 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
35211 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
35212 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
35213 circuit cannibalization).
35215 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
35216 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
35217 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
35218 new module, networkstatus.c.
35219 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
35220 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
35221 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
35222 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
35223 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
35224 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
35225 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
35226 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
35227 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
35229 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
35231 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
35232 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
35235 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
35236 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
35237 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
35238 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
35240 o New directory authorities:
35241 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
35242 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
35244 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
35245 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
35246 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35248 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
35249 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
35250 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
35251 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
35252 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
35253 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
35254 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
35255 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
35256 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
35257 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
35258 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
35260 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
35261 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
35262 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
35263 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
35264 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
35265 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
35266 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
35267 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
35268 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
35270 o Minor features (security):
35271 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
35272 address maps to an internal address space.
35273 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
35274 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
35276 o Minor features (guard nodes):
35277 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
35278 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
35279 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
35280 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
35282 o Minor features (speed):
35283 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
35284 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
35285 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
35286 on big-endian hosts.)
35288 o Minor features (controller):
35289 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
35290 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
35291 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
35292 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
35295 o Removed features:
35296 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
35297 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
35298 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
35299 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
35300 implementation of proposal 104.
35301 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
35302 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
35303 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
35304 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
35305 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
35306 patch from Karsten Loesing.
35307 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
35308 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
35311 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
35312 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
35313 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
35314 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
35315 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35316 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
35317 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
35318 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
35319 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
35320 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35321 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
35322 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
35323 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
35324 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35325 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
35326 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
35327 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
35328 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35329 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
35330 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
35332 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
35333 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
35334 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
35336 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
35337 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
35338 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
35339 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
35342 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
35343 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
35344 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
35345 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
35346 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
35349 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
35350 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
35353 o Major bugfixes (security):
35354 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
35355 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
35356 become more of a headache than it's worth.
35358 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
35359 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
35360 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
35362 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
35363 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
35364 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
35365 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
35366 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
35367 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
35369 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
35370 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
35371 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
35372 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
35373 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
35375 o Minor features (controller):
35376 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
35377 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
35378 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
35379 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
35381 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
35382 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
35383 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
35384 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
35385 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
35386 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
35387 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
35388 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
35390 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
35391 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
35392 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
35393 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
35394 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
35395 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
35396 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
35397 if we ran off the end of the list.
35398 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
35399 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
35400 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
35401 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
35402 every time we change any piece of our config.
35403 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
35404 encourage people using them to stop.
35405 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
35407 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
35408 servers to choose a circuit.
35409 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
35410 unparseable piece of it.
35413 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
35414 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
35415 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
35416 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
35419 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
35420 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
35421 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
35422 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
35423 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
35425 o New directory authorities:
35426 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
35429 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
35430 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
35431 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
35432 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
35434 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
35435 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
35436 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
35438 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
35439 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
35440 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
35441 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
35442 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
35443 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
35445 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
35446 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
35447 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
35450 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
35451 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
35452 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
35453 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
35457 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
35458 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
35459 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
35460 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
35462 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
35463 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
35465 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
35466 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
35467 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
35468 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
35469 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
35470 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
35471 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35472 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
35473 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35474 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
35477 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
35478 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
35479 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
35480 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
35481 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
35482 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
35484 o Removed features:
35485 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
35486 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
35487 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
35488 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
35491 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
35492 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
35493 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
35494 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
35495 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
35498 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
35499 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
35500 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
35501 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
35502 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
35503 reported by lodger.
35505 o Minor features (directory servers):
35506 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
35507 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
35509 o Minor features (directory voting):
35510 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
35513 o Minor features (security):
35514 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
35515 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
35516 encourage people using them to stop.
35518 o Minor features (controller):
35519 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
35520 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
35521 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
35522 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
35523 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
35524 cookie authentication file, and config option
35525 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
35527 o Minor features (unit testing):
35528 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
35529 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
35530 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
35531 logging for the unit tests.
35533 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
35534 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
35535 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
35536 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
35537 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
35538 every time we change any piece of our config.
35539 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
35540 the future. Fixes bug 434.
35541 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
35543 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
35544 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
35545 the onion key from getting rotated.
35546 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
35547 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
35548 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
35551 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
35552 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
35553 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
35555 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
35556 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
35557 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
35558 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
35561 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
35562 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
35563 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
35564 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
35565 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
35566 TorK, etc. Or worse.
35568 o Major security fixes:
35569 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
35570 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
35573 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
35574 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
35575 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
35576 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
35578 o Major security fixes:
35579 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
35580 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
35582 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
35583 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
35586 o Minor features (performance):
35587 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
35588 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
35589 performance-intensive.
35590 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
35591 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
35592 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
35593 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
35594 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
35595 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
35599 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
35600 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
35601 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
35602 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
35606 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
35607 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
35608 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
35609 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
35610 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
35612 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
35613 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
35614 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
35615 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
35617 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
35618 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
35619 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
35620 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
35621 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
35623 o Major features (experimental):
35624 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
35625 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
35626 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
35627 handling before it's ready for use.
35630 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
35631 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
35632 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
35633 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
35634 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
35635 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
35637 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
35638 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
35639 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
35640 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
35641 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
35643 o Major bugfixes (directory):
35644 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
35645 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
35647 o Minor features (controller):
35648 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
35649 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
35650 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
35651 from Robert Hogan.)
35652 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
35653 from Robert Hogan.)
35654 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
35655 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
35657 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
35658 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
35659 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
35660 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
35661 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
35662 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
35663 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
35666 o Minor features (misc):
35667 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
35669 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
35670 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
35671 the authority identity key.
35672 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
35674 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
35675 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
35676 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
35679 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
35680 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
35681 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
35682 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
35683 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
35684 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
35685 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
35686 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
35688 o Performance improvements:
35689 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
35691 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
35692 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
35695 o Deprecated and removed features:
35696 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
35697 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
35698 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
35699 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
35701 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
35702 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
35703 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
35704 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
35705 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
35706 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
35707 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
35708 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
35709 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
35712 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
35713 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
35714 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
35715 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
35716 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
35718 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
35719 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
35722 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
35723 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
35724 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
35725 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
35726 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
35727 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
35728 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
35729 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
35730 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
35733 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
35734 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
35735 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
35736 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
35738 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
35739 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
35741 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
35742 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
35743 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
35744 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
35745 routerlist while inserting a new router.
35746 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
35747 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
35749 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
35750 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
35751 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
35753 o Major bugfixes (security):
35754 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
35756 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
35757 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
35758 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
35759 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
35760 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
35761 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
35762 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
35763 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
35764 guard list unless we need to.
35766 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
35767 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
35768 don't get overused as guards.
35770 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
35771 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
35772 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
35773 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
35774 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
35776 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
35777 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
35778 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
35781 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
35782 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
35783 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
35784 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
35785 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
35786 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
35787 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
35788 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
35791 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
35792 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
35793 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
35794 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
35796 o Minor features (directory):
35797 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
35798 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
35799 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
35800 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
35802 o Minor build issues:
35803 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
35804 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
35805 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
35806 in the tarball, not as "x".
35809 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
35810 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
35811 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
35812 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
35813 forward on a lot of fronts.
35815 o Major features, server usability:
35816 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
35817 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
35818 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
35819 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
35821 o Major features, client usability:
35822 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
35823 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
35824 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
35825 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
35826 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
35827 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
35828 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
35829 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
35831 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
35832 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
35833 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
35834 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
35835 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
35836 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
35838 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
35839 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
35840 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
35842 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
35843 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
35844 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
35845 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
35846 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
35848 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
35849 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
35850 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
35851 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
35853 o Major features, other:
35854 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
35855 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
35856 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
35857 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
35858 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
35861 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
35862 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
35863 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
35866 o Minor fixes (resource management):
35867 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
35868 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
35869 our allocated connection limit.
35870 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
35871 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
35872 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
35873 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
35874 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
35876 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
35877 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
35878 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
35880 o Minor features (build):
35881 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
35882 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
35883 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
35884 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
35886 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
35887 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
35888 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
35889 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
35890 Use this version consistently in log messages.
35892 o Minor features (logging):
35893 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
35894 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
35895 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
35896 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
35897 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
35900 o Minor features (directory system):
35901 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
35902 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
35903 not to serve V2 directory information.
35904 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
35905 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
35906 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
35908 o Minor features (controller):
35909 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
35910 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
35912 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
35913 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
35914 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
35915 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
35916 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
35917 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
35919 o Minor features (hidden services):
35920 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
35921 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
35922 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
35923 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
35925 o Minor features (other):
35927 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
35928 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
35929 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
35930 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
35931 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
35932 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
35933 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
35934 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
35935 longer a completely silly thing to do.
35936 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
35937 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
35938 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
35939 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
35941 o Removed features:
35942 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
35943 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
35944 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
35945 back an error and close the connection.
35946 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
35947 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
35950 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
35951 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
35952 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
35953 makes the log messages nicer.
35954 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
35955 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
35956 partial results on small file reads.
35958 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
35959 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
35960 more often than they are allowed to appear.
35961 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
35962 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
35964 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
35965 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
35966 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
35967 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
35969 o Minor bugfixes (other):
35970 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
35971 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
35972 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
35973 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
35974 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
35975 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
35976 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
35977 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
35978 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
35979 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
35981 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
35982 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
35983 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
35985 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
35986 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
35987 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
35988 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
35990 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
35991 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
35992 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
35994 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
35995 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
35998 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
35999 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
36000 implicit in other procedure arguments.
36001 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
36002 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
36003 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
36004 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
36005 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
36006 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
36007 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
36008 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
36009 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
36012 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
36013 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
36014 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
36015 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
36017 o Directory authority changes:
36018 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
36019 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
36020 or use hidden services.
36022 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
36023 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
36024 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
36025 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
36026 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
36027 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
36028 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
36029 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
36030 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
36033 o Major bugfixes (security):
36034 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
36035 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
36036 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
36038 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
36039 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
36040 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
36041 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
36042 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
36043 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
36044 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
36045 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
36046 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
36047 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
36050 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
36051 purpose=controller.
36052 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
36053 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
36055 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
36056 having a hard time downloading.
36057 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
36058 partial results on small file reads.
36059 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
36060 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
36061 the gaps in the store get very large.
36064 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
36065 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
36067 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
36068 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
36071 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
36072 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
36073 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
36074 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
36075 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
36076 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
36078 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
36079 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
36080 free speech on the Internet.
36083 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
36084 get one we don't recognize.
36085 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
36086 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
36089 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
36091 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
36092 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
36093 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
36094 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
36097 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
36098 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
36101 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
36102 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
36103 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
36104 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
36105 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
36106 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
36107 ask for GUARDS too.
36110 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
36111 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
36112 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
36113 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
36114 on Win98 and friends again.
36116 o Minor bugfixes (other):
36117 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
36118 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
36121 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
36122 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
36123 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
36124 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
36125 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
36126 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
36127 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
36128 and maybe also bug 397.)
36130 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
36131 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
36132 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
36134 o Minor bugfixes (server):
36135 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
36138 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
36139 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
36140 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
36141 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
36142 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
36144 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
36145 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
36146 load on authorities.
36148 o Minor bugfixes (other):
36149 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
36150 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
36151 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
36153 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
36155 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
36156 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
36157 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
36158 the last of bug 326.)
36159 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
36160 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
36164 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
36165 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
36166 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
36167 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
36168 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
36169 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
36170 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
36172 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
36173 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
36175 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
36176 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
36177 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
36179 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
36180 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
36181 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
36183 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
36184 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
36185 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
36186 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
36188 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
36189 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
36191 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
36192 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
36193 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
36196 o Minor bugfixes (other):
36197 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
36198 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
36199 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
36200 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
36201 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
36202 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
36203 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
36204 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
36205 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
36206 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
36207 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
36208 other than file-not-found.
36209 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
36210 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
36211 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
36212 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
36213 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
36214 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
36215 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
36216 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
36217 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
36218 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
36219 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
36220 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
36221 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
36222 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
36223 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
36225 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
36227 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
36228 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
36230 o Minor features (controller):
36231 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
36232 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
36233 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
36235 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
36236 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
36237 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
36238 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
36239 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
36240 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
36241 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
36242 connected or resolved cell.
36244 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
36245 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
36246 some profiles, but not others.)
36247 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
36248 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
36249 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
36252 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
36254 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
36255 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
36256 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
36257 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
36258 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
36259 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
36260 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
36261 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
36262 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
36263 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
36264 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
36265 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
36266 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
36267 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
36268 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
36270 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
36273 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
36274 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
36275 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
36276 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
36277 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
36278 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
36279 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
36281 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
36282 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
36283 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
36284 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
36285 buckets go absurdly negative.
36286 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
36287 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
36290 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
36291 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
36292 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
36293 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
36294 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
36295 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
36296 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
36297 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
36300 o Major bugfixes (other):
36301 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
36302 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
36303 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
36304 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
36306 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
36308 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
36309 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
36311 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
36312 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
36313 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
36314 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
36315 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
36316 to wait for 0.2.0.)
36318 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
36319 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
36320 possible memory-stomping bugs.
36321 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
36322 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
36324 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
36325 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
36326 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
36327 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
36328 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
36329 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
36331 o Minor bugfixes (other):
36332 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
36333 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
36334 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
36336 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
36337 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
36338 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
36339 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
36340 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
36341 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
36342 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
36343 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
36344 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
36345 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
36346 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
36347 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
36348 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
36350 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
36351 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
36352 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
36353 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
36354 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
36355 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
36356 to the resulting address.
36359 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
36360 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
36361 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
36362 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
36365 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
36366 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
36368 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
36369 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
36370 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
36371 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
36372 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
36373 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
36374 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
36375 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
36376 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
36377 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
36378 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
36379 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
36380 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
36381 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
36382 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
36383 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
36384 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
36387 o Minor features (controller):
36388 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
36389 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
36390 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
36391 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
36392 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
36393 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
36394 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
36398 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
36400 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
36401 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
36402 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
36403 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
36404 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
36405 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
36408 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
36409 weren't planning to resolve.
36410 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
36411 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
36412 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
36413 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
36414 the controller from learning about current events.
36416 o Minor features (more controller status events):
36417 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
36418 learn when our address changes.
36419 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
36420 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
36421 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
36422 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
36424 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
36425 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
36426 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
36427 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
36428 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
36429 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
36430 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
36431 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
36432 are accepted by a directory.
36433 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
36434 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
36435 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
36436 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
36437 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
36439 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
36440 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
36441 about changes to DNS server status.
36443 o Minor features (directory):
36444 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
36445 too much load to the exit nodes.
36448 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
36450 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
36451 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
36452 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
36453 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
36454 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
36456 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
36457 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
36458 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
36460 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
36461 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
36462 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
36463 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
36464 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
36465 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
36466 config options if you like.
36468 o Minor features (config and docs):
36469 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
36470 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
36471 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
36472 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
36473 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
36475 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
36476 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
36477 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
36478 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
36479 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
36481 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
36482 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
36483 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
36484 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
36485 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
36486 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
36487 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
36488 documentation: "make check-docs".
36489 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
36490 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
36492 o Minor features (DNS):
36493 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
36494 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
36495 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
36496 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
36497 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
36498 our tests for DNS hijacking.
36500 o Minor features (directory):
36501 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
36502 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
36503 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
36504 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
36505 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
36506 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
36507 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
36508 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
36509 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
36510 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
36511 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
36512 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
36513 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
36514 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
36515 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
36516 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
36517 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
36518 for the thing we're trying to download.
36519 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
36520 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
36521 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
36523 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
36524 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
36525 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
36528 o Minor features (controller):
36529 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
36530 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
36532 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
36533 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
36534 entry guard status as it changes.
36536 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
36537 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
36538 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
36539 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
36540 to set log options.
36541 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
36542 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
36543 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
36544 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
36547 o Major bugfixes (security):
36548 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
36549 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
36550 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
36551 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
36553 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
36554 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
36555 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
36556 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
36557 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
36559 o Major bugfixes (other):
36560 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
36561 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
36562 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
36563 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
36565 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
36566 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
36567 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
36568 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
36569 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
36570 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
36574 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
36575 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
36576 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
36577 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
36578 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
36580 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
36581 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
36583 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
36584 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
36585 family lists conveniently.
36586 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
36587 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
36588 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
36590 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
36591 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
36593 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
36594 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
36595 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
36596 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
36597 if their identity keys are as expected.
36598 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
36599 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
36600 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
36602 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
36603 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
36604 reported by Mike Perry.
36605 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
36606 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
36607 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
36608 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
36611 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
36612 o Security bugfixes:
36613 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
36614 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
36615 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
36616 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
36620 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
36621 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
36622 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
36625 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
36627 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
36628 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
36629 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
36632 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
36633 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
36634 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
36635 watching for STREAM events.
36636 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
36637 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
36638 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
36639 operations, for profiling.
36642 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
36643 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
36644 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
36645 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
36646 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
36647 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
36649 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
36653 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
36654 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
36655 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
36656 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
36657 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
36659 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
36660 correctly in the Windows installer.
36661 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
36662 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
36663 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
36664 MIPSpro C compiler.
36665 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
36666 when we're running as a client.
36669 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
36671 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
36672 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
36673 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
36674 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
36675 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
36676 its circuits on demand.
36677 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
36678 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
36679 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
36680 connections more stable on average.
36681 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
36682 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
36683 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
36685 o Security bugfixes:
36686 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
36687 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
36690 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
36692 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
36693 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
36694 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
36695 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
36696 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
36697 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
36698 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
36699 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
36702 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
36704 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
36705 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
36706 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
36707 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
36708 routers for even longer.
36709 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
36710 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
36711 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
36712 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
36713 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
36714 caching HTTP proxies.
36715 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
36718 o Minor features, controller:
36719 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
36720 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
36721 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
36722 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
36724 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
36725 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
36726 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
36727 working much like those for circuit events.
36728 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
36729 about the current status of a router.
36730 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
36731 a router's status has changed.
36732 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
36733 can tell which events and features are supported.
36734 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
36735 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
36737 o Security bugfixes:
36738 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
36739 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
36742 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
36743 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
36744 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
36745 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
36746 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
36747 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
36748 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
36749 long nicknames where appropriate.
36750 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
36751 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
36752 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
36753 chews through many circuits before giving up.
36754 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
36755 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
36756 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
36757 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
36758 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
36759 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
36761 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
36762 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
36763 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
36765 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
36766 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
36767 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
36768 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
36769 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
36770 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
36771 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
36772 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
36773 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
36774 (reported by fookoowa).
36775 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
36776 and reported by some Centos users.
36777 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
36778 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
36779 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
36780 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
36781 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
36782 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
36783 before we check for libevent.
36786 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
36788 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
36789 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
36790 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
36791 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
36792 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
36793 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
36794 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
36795 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
36796 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
36797 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
36798 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
36799 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
36800 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
36801 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
36802 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
36803 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
36804 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
36805 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
36806 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
36807 lets you turn it off.
36808 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
36809 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
36810 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
36811 us into the directory more quickly.
36813 o New/improved config options:
36814 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
36815 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
36816 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
36817 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
36818 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
36819 all the machines on the same subnet.
36820 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
36821 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
36822 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
36823 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
36824 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
36825 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
36826 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
36827 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
36828 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
36829 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
36831 o Minor features, controller:
36832 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
36833 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
36834 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
36835 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
36836 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
36837 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
36838 for more information.
36839 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
36840 best guess to the user.
36841 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
36842 descriptor has changed.
36843 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
36845 o Minor features, other:
36846 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
36847 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
36848 useful to the network.
36849 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
36850 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
36851 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
36852 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
36853 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
36854 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
36855 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
36856 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
36857 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
36858 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
36859 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
36860 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
36861 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
36862 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
36863 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
36865 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
36866 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
36867 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
36868 could return an unnamed server instead.
36869 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
36870 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
36871 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
36872 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
36873 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
36874 a more attractive target for compromise.)
36875 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
36876 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
36877 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
36879 o Major bugfixes, other:
36880 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
36881 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
36882 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
36883 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
36884 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
36885 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
36886 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
36887 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
36888 its circuits on demand.
36889 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
36890 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
36891 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
36892 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
36894 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
36895 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
36896 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
36897 we don't recognize.
36898 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
36900 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
36901 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
36902 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
36903 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
36904 "extendcircuit" request.
36905 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
36906 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
36907 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
36909 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
36910 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
36911 instead of "X resolved to X".
36912 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
36913 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
36914 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
36915 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
36916 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
36917 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
36918 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
36919 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
36920 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
36922 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
36923 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
36924 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
36925 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
36926 result more than once.
36927 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
36928 non-versioning dirservers.
36929 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
36930 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
36932 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
36933 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
36934 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
36935 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
36936 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
36937 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
36938 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
36939 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
36940 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
36942 o Packaging, features:
36943 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
36944 now universal binaries.
36945 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
36946 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
36947 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
36949 o Packaging, bugfixes:
36950 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
36951 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
36952 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
36953 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
36955 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
36956 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
36957 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
36960 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
36961 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
36962 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
36966 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
36968 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
36969 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
36970 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
36971 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
36972 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
36973 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
36974 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
36975 it can't resolve its hostname.
36978 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
36979 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
36980 "extendcircuit" request.
36981 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
36982 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
36983 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
36984 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
36986 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
36987 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
36988 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
36990 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
36991 methods: these are known to be buggy.
36992 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
36993 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
36994 we don't recognize.
36997 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
36999 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
37000 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
37001 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
37002 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
37003 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
37004 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
37005 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
37006 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
37007 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
37008 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
37009 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
37010 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
37011 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
37012 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
37013 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
37014 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
37015 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
37016 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
37017 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
37018 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
37019 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
37020 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
37021 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
37022 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
37025 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
37026 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
37027 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
37028 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
37029 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
37030 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
37031 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
37032 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
37033 recommendation system saner.)
37034 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
37036 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
37037 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
37038 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
37039 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
37040 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
37041 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
37042 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
37043 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
37044 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
37045 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
37046 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
37047 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
37048 your ORPort is set.
37049 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
37050 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
37051 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
37052 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
37053 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
37054 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
37055 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
37056 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
37057 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
37058 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
37059 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
37060 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
37062 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
37063 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
37064 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
37065 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
37066 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
37067 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
37070 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
37071 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
37072 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
37073 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
37074 our DirPort now, etc.
37075 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
37076 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
37077 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
37078 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
37079 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
37080 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
37081 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
37083 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
37084 whether the config options are bad or good.
37085 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
37086 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
37087 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
37088 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
37089 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
37090 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
37091 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
37092 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
37095 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
37096 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
37097 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
37098 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
37099 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
37100 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
37101 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
37102 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
37103 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
37104 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
37105 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
37106 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
37107 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
37108 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
37109 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
37110 of it), is not therefore "up".
37111 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
37112 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
37113 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
37114 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
37115 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
37116 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
37119 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
37121 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
37122 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
37123 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
37124 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
37125 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
37126 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
37127 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
37128 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
37129 test reachability, so you won't publish.
37132 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
37133 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
37134 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
37135 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
37136 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
37138 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
37139 own server descriptor yet.
37142 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
37144 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
37145 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
37146 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
37147 make sure to test via one of these.
37148 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
37149 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
37150 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
37151 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
37152 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
37154 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
37155 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
37156 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
37159 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
37160 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
37161 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
37162 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
37163 directory authority.
37164 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
37165 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
37166 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
37167 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
37170 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
37171 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
37172 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
37174 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
37175 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
37176 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
37177 current guards when picking a new guard.
37178 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
37179 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
37180 when we had more than one pending.
37181 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
37182 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
37183 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
37184 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
37185 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
37186 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
37187 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
37188 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
37189 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
37190 debug the reachability problems better.
37192 o Log / documentation fixes:
37193 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
37194 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
37195 about protocol violations by others.
37196 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
37197 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
37198 about what happened to our old torrc.
37201 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
37203 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
37205 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
37206 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
37207 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
37208 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
37211 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
37213 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
37214 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
37215 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
37216 old ORPort and receive connections.
37217 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
37219 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
37220 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
37221 and network-statuses.
37222 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
37223 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
37224 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
37225 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
37227 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
37230 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
37231 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
37232 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
37235 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
37237 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
37238 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
37239 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
37240 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
37241 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
37244 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
37245 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
37247 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
37248 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
37249 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
37250 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
37251 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
37252 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
37253 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
37254 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
37255 rather than not sending anything back at all.
37256 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
37257 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
37258 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
37259 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
37260 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
37261 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
37262 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
37263 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
37264 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
37265 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
37266 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
37267 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
37268 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
37269 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
37270 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
37271 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
37272 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
37273 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
37274 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
37275 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
37276 default ulimit -n is 1024.
37279 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
37280 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
37281 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
37282 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
37285 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
37287 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
37288 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
37289 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
37290 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
37291 entry guards running these flawed versions.
37292 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
37293 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
37294 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
37295 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
37296 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
37299 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
37300 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
37302 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
37303 and it is confusing some users.
37304 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
37305 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
37306 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
37307 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
37308 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
37311 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
37313 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
37314 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
37315 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
37316 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
37317 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
37318 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
37319 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
37320 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
37321 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
37322 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
37323 dirport is set for now.
37325 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
37326 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
37327 unattached before we fail it?
37328 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
37329 at least this many seconds ago.
37330 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
37331 at least this many seconds ago.
37334 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
37335 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
37336 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
37337 or resolve-wait stream.
37338 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
37339 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
37340 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
37341 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
37342 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
37343 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
37344 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
37345 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
37347 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
37348 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
37349 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
37350 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
37351 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
37352 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
37353 given as hex digests.
37354 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
37355 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
37356 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
37357 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
37358 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
37359 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
37360 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
37361 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
37364 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37365 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
37366 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
37367 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
37368 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
37369 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
37370 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
37371 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
37372 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
37373 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
37374 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
37377 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
37378 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
37379 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
37380 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
37381 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
37382 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
37383 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
37386 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
37387 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
37388 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
37389 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
37390 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
37391 misreading their logs.
37392 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
37393 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
37394 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
37395 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
37396 valid router descriptors.
37397 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
37398 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
37399 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
37400 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
37401 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
37402 silently resetting it to its default.
37403 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
37405 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
37408 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
37409 use clean circuits.
37410 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
37411 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
37412 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
37413 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
37414 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
37416 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
37417 because older Tors do not understand it.
37418 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
37422 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
37423 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
37424 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
37425 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
37426 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
37427 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
37428 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
37429 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
37430 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
37431 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
37432 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
37434 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
37435 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
37436 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
37437 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
37439 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
37440 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
37443 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
37444 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
37445 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
37446 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
37447 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
37448 without getting overloaded.
37449 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
37451 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
37452 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
37453 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
37454 be forward-compatible.
37455 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
37456 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
37457 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
37458 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
37460 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
37461 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
37462 and OR conns to port 443.
37463 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
37464 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
37466 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
37467 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
37468 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
37469 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
37470 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
37471 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
37472 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
37475 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
37476 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37477 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
37478 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
37480 o Other important bugfixes:
37481 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
37482 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
37483 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
37484 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
37486 o Backported features:
37487 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
37488 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
37489 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
37490 without getting overloaded.
37491 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
37492 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
37493 503's whenever they feel busy.
37494 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
37495 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
37496 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
37497 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
37498 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
37501 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
37502 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
37503 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
37504 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
37505 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
37506 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
37507 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
37508 know if the crashes continue.
37509 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
37510 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
37511 seg faults in at least some cases.)
37512 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
37513 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
37514 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
37517 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
37518 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
37519 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
37520 try to be a bit more fair.
37521 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
37522 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
37523 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
37524 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
37525 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
37526 bug that let it go negative.
37527 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
37528 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
37529 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
37530 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
37531 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
37532 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
37533 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
37534 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
37535 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
37536 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
37537 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
37540 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
37542 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
37543 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
37544 service descriptors.
37547 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
37548 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
37549 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
37550 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
37552 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
37553 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
37554 versions *are* still recommended.
37555 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
37556 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
37557 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
37558 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
37559 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
37560 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
37561 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
37562 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
37564 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
37565 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
37566 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
37567 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
37568 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
37569 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
37570 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
37571 on it. Not used by clients yet.
37572 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
37573 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
37574 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
37575 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
37576 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
37577 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
37578 established a circuit.
37579 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
37580 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
37581 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
37582 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
37585 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
37586 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
37587 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
37588 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
37589 quickly enough. Oops.
37590 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
37592 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37593 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
37596 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
37597 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
37598 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
37599 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
37600 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
37601 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
37602 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
37603 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
37604 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
37605 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
37606 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
37607 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
37608 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
37609 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
37610 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
37611 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
37612 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
37615 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
37616 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
37617 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
37618 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
37619 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
37620 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
37621 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
37622 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
37623 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
37624 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
37625 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
37626 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
37627 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
37628 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
37629 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
37630 connections more reliable.
37633 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
37634 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
37635 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
37636 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
37637 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
37638 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
37639 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
37640 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
37641 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
37642 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
37643 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
37644 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
37645 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
37646 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
37650 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
37651 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
37652 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
37653 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
37654 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
37655 need to be uint64_t's.
37656 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
37657 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
37658 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
37660 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
37662 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
37663 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
37664 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
37665 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
37666 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
37667 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
37668 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
37670 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
37671 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
37672 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
37673 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
37674 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
37675 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
37676 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
37677 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
37678 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
37679 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
37680 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
37681 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
37682 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
37685 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
37686 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
37687 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
37688 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
37689 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
37690 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
37691 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
37693 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
37694 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
37695 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
37696 can answer v2 directory requests too.
37697 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
37698 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
37699 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
37700 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
37702 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
37703 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
37704 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
37705 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
37706 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
37707 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
37708 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
37709 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
37710 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
37711 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
37712 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
37713 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
37714 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
37715 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
37716 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
37718 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
37719 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
37722 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
37723 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37724 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
37725 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
37726 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
37727 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
37728 too -- so detect and avoid this.
37729 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
37731 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
37732 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
37733 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
37734 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
37735 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
37736 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
37737 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
37738 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
37739 rendezvous circuits.
37740 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
37742 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37743 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
37744 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
37745 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
37746 advertising it because of hibernation.
37747 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
37748 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
37749 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
37750 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
37751 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
37752 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
37753 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
37754 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
37755 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
37756 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
37757 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
37758 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
37759 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
37760 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
37763 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
37764 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37765 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
37766 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
37767 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
37768 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
37769 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
37770 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
37771 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
37772 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
37773 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
37774 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
37775 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
37776 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
37777 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
37778 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
37779 connections once a week.
37780 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
37781 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
37782 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
37783 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
37784 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
37785 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
37787 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
37788 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
37789 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
37791 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37792 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
37793 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
37794 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
37795 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
37796 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
37797 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
37798 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
37799 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
37800 firewall options forbid.
37801 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
37802 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
37803 can only proxy to certain destinations.
37804 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
37805 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
37806 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
37807 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
37808 aids some statistical attacks.
37809 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
37810 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
37811 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
37812 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
37814 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
37815 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
37816 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
37817 server descriptor sometimes.
37818 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
37819 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
37820 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
37821 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
37822 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
37823 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
37824 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
37825 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
37827 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
37828 case the controller wants to change that too.
37829 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
37830 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
37831 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
37832 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
37834 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
37835 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
37836 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
37838 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
37839 descriptors that they know they will reject.
37841 o Features and updates:
37842 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
37843 significantly faster.
37844 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
37845 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
37846 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
37847 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
37848 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
37849 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
37850 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
37851 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
37852 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
37853 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
37854 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
37855 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
37856 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
37857 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
37858 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
37859 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
37860 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
37861 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
37862 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
37863 as authoritative dirserver.
37864 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
37865 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
37866 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
37869 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
37870 o Usability improvements:
37871 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
37872 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
37874 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
37875 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
37876 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
37878 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
37879 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
37880 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
37881 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
37882 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
37883 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
37884 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
37885 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
37886 memory leaks better.
37887 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
37888 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
37889 their operators to pay close attention.
37890 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
37891 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
37893 o Performance improvements:
37894 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
37895 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
37896 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
37897 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
37898 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
37899 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
37900 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
37901 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
37902 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
37903 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
37904 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
37905 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
37906 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
37907 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
37908 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
37909 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
37910 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
37912 o Security improvements:
37913 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
37914 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
37915 fingerprint of server.
37916 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
37917 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
37918 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
37920 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37921 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
37922 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
37923 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
37924 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
37925 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
37926 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
37927 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
37928 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
37929 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
37930 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
37931 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
37932 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
37933 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
37934 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
37935 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
37936 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
37937 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
37938 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
37939 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
37940 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
37942 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
37943 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
37944 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
37946 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
37947 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
37949 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
37950 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
37951 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
37952 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
37953 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
37954 of the controller protocol.
37955 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
37956 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
37957 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
37960 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
37961 o New features (major):
37962 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
37963 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
37964 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
37965 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
37966 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
37967 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
37968 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
37969 we're using a default DirPort.
37970 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
37972 o New features (minor):
37973 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
37974 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
37975 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
37976 mirrors still cache and serve it).
37977 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
37978 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
37979 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
37980 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
37981 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
37982 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
37983 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
37984 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
37985 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
37986 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
37987 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
37988 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
37989 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
37990 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
37991 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
37993 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
37994 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
37995 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
37996 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
37997 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
37998 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
37999 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
38000 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
38002 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
38003 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
38004 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
38005 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
38006 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
38007 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
38008 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
38009 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
38010 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
38011 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
38013 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
38014 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
38015 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
38016 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
38017 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
38019 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
38020 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
38021 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
38023 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
38024 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
38026 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
38027 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
38028 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
38029 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
38030 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
38031 don't warn twice about the same name.
38032 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
38033 if we've not heard of the server.
38034 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
38035 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
38038 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
38039 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38040 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
38041 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
38042 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
38043 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
38044 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
38045 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
38046 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
38047 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
38048 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
38049 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
38050 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
38051 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
38052 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
38055 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
38056 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
38057 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
38058 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
38059 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
38061 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
38062 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
38063 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
38064 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
38065 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
38066 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
38070 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
38071 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
38072 nickname) is reachable by you.
38073 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
38076 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
38077 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
38078 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
38079 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
38080 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
38081 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
38082 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
38083 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
38084 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
38085 we fail to connect).
38086 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
38087 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
38088 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
38089 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
38091 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
38092 it was self-testing that told us so.
38095 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
38096 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
38097 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
38098 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
38099 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
38100 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
38101 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
38102 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
38103 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
38104 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
38105 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
38106 exit policy using him for any exits.
38107 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
38110 o New controller features/fixes:
38111 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
38112 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
38113 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
38114 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
38115 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
38116 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
38117 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
38118 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
38119 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
38121 o Start on the new directory design:
38122 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
38123 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
38125 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
38126 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
38127 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
38128 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
38130 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
38131 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
38132 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
38133 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
38134 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
38135 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
38136 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
38137 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
38140 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
38141 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
38142 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
38143 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
38144 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
38145 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
38146 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
38147 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
38148 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
38149 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
38151 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
38152 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
38153 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
38154 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
38155 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
38156 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
38157 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
38158 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
38159 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
38161 o Config option changes:
38162 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
38163 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
38164 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
38165 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
38166 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
38167 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
38169 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
38170 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
38171 people have started using them for spam too.
38172 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
38173 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
38174 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
38175 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
38176 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
38177 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
38178 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
38179 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
38180 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
38181 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
38182 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
38183 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
38184 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
38185 services faster on the service end.
38186 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
38187 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
38188 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
38189 it a fair shake next time we try.
38190 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
38191 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
38192 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
38193 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
38194 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
38195 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
38196 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
38197 able to discover them.
38198 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
38199 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
38200 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
38201 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
38202 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
38203 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
38204 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
38205 testing for reachability.
38206 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
38207 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
38209 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
38211 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
38212 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
38215 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
38216 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
38218 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38219 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
38220 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
38221 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
38224 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
38225 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38226 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
38228 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
38229 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
38232 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
38233 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
38236 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
38237 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
38238 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
38239 options, getinfo keys.
38242 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
38243 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38244 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
38245 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
38246 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
38247 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
38248 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
38250 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
38251 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
38255 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
38256 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
38257 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
38259 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
38261 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
38262 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
38263 circuit events and we go offline.
38264 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
38265 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
38266 you don't have enough intro points already.
38268 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
38269 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
38270 many bytes we've used in this time period.
38271 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
38272 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
38273 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
38274 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
38275 enabled by default yet.
38277 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
38278 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
38279 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
38280 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
38281 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
38284 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
38285 o New directory servers:
38286 - tor26 has changed IP address.
38288 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38289 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
38290 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
38291 pthreads libraries.
38292 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
38293 claims its dirport is 0.
38294 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
38295 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
38299 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
38300 o New directory servers:
38301 - tor26 has changed IP address.
38303 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
38304 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
38306 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
38307 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
38308 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
38309 ports that have changed.
38310 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
38312 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
38313 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
38314 Windows-style errno back.
38315 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
38317 want to make it an NT service.
38318 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
38319 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
38320 name, give the full name in our response.
38321 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
38322 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
38323 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
38324 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
38325 pthreads libraries.
38327 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
38328 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
38332 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
38333 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
38334 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
38335 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
38336 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
38339 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
38340 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38341 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
38342 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
38343 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
38344 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
38345 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
38346 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
38349 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
38351 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
38352 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
38353 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
38354 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
38355 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
38356 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
38358 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
38359 temporarily unreachable.
38360 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
38364 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
38365 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
38366 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
38367 our protocol works.
38368 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
38372 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
38373 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
38374 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
38375 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
38376 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
38380 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
38381 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
38382 libevent before 1.1a.
38385 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
38387 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
38388 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
38389 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
38390 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
38391 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
38393 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
38394 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
38395 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
38396 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
38397 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
38398 of CPU time plus memory.
38399 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
38400 normal web requests.
38401 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
38402 tor_lookup_hostname().
38403 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
38404 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
38405 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
38406 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
38407 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
38408 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
38410 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
38411 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
38412 HttpProxyAuthenticator
38413 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
38414 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
38415 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
38417 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
38418 the user asks you to.
38419 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
38420 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
38421 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
38422 their descriptors are being rejected.
38423 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
38427 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
38429 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
38430 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
38431 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
38433 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
38435 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
38437 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
38438 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
38439 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
38440 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
38441 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
38442 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
38443 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
38444 keys) from the exit server's process.
38445 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
38446 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
38447 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
38448 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
38449 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
38450 point at your Tor server.
38451 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
38452 you're not sending a socks reply back.
38455 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
38456 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
38457 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
38458 to make it easier to write controllers.
38461 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
38463 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
38464 installing on Tiger.
38465 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
38466 complain during installation.
38467 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
38468 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
38469 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
38470 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
38471 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
38472 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
38474 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
38475 something more reasonable when first installing.
38476 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
38479 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
38481 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
38482 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
38484 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
38485 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
38486 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
38487 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
38488 when using the default exit policy.
38489 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
38490 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
38491 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
38492 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
38493 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
38494 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
38495 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
38496 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
38497 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
38498 we fetched a new directory.
38499 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
38500 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
38503 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
38504 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
38505 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
38506 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
38507 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
38508 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
38509 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
38510 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
38512 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
38513 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
38514 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
38515 save memory on systems that need to fork.
38516 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
38517 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
38518 is valid without actually launching Tor.
38519 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
38520 rather than just rejecting it.
38523 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
38525 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
38526 we didn't like its cert.
38528 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
38529 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
38530 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
38531 on patch from Adam Langley.
38532 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
38533 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
38534 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
38535 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
38537 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
38538 directory every time you regenerate it.
38539 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
38540 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
38543 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
38544 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
38545 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
38546 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
38547 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
38550 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
38552 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
38553 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
38554 TLS errors better in other situations too.
38555 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
38556 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
38557 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
38558 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
38559 and don't log when you are.
38560 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
38561 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
38563 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
38564 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
38565 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
38566 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
38567 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
38570 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
38571 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
38572 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
38573 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
38574 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
38575 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
38576 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
38577 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
38578 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
38579 nickname+key are allowed.
38580 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
38581 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
38582 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
38583 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
38584 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
38585 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
38586 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
38587 have quite wrong clocks).
38588 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
38589 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
38590 - Efficiency improvements:
38591 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
38592 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
38593 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
38594 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
38595 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
38596 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
38597 lowercase and be done with it.
38598 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
38599 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
38600 to abandon partially built circuits.
38601 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
38602 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
38604 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
38606 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
38607 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
38608 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
38609 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
38611 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
38612 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
38614 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
38615 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
38616 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
38617 obeying the exit policy internally.
38618 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
38619 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
38621 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
38622 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
38623 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
38624 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
38626 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
38627 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
38628 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
38629 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
38630 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
38632 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
38633 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
38634 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
38635 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
38636 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
38637 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
38638 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
38639 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
38640 descriptors we just dropped.
38641 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
38642 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
38643 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
38644 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
38645 artificially capped at 500kB.
38648 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
38649 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
38650 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
38651 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
38652 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
38653 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
38654 busy for more than 100 seconds.
38657 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
38658 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
38659 - Fixes on reachability detection:
38660 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
38661 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
38662 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
38663 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
38664 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
38665 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
38666 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
38667 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
38668 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
38669 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
38670 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
38671 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
38672 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
38673 server not already connected to them.
38674 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
38675 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
38676 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
38678 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
38680 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
38681 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
38682 are in a different state than they actually are.
38683 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
38684 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
38685 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
38687 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
38688 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
38689 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
38691 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
38692 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
38693 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
38694 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
38695 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
38696 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
38697 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
38699 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
38700 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
38701 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
38702 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
38705 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
38706 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
38707 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
38708 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
38709 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
38710 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
38711 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
38712 creating actual system users.
38713 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
38714 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
38718 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
38720 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
38721 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
38722 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
38723 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
38724 hidden services better.
38725 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
38727 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
38728 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
38729 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
38730 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
38731 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
38732 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
38733 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
38734 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
38735 patch by Matt Edman).
38736 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
38737 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
38738 required exit node for certain sites.
38739 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
38740 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
38741 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
38742 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
38743 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
38744 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
38745 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
38746 rather than just "success" or "failure".
38747 - A more sane version numbering system. See
38748 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
38749 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
38750 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
38752 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
38753 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
38754 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
38755 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
38756 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
38757 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
38758 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
38760 o Robustness/stability fixes:
38761 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
38762 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
38763 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
38765 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
38766 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
38767 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
38769 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
38770 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
38771 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
38773 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
38774 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
38775 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
38776 that will want high uptime circuits.
38777 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
38778 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
38779 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
38780 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
38781 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
38782 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
38783 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
38784 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
38785 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
38786 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
38787 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
38788 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
38789 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
38790 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
38791 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
38792 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
38793 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
38794 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
38795 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
38796 when we try to launch one.
38797 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
38798 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
38799 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
38800 "ShutdownWaitLength".
38801 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
38802 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
38803 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
38804 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
38805 and to take errno into account where possible.
38808 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
38809 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
38810 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
38811 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
38812 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
38813 file more reasonable.
38814 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
38815 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
38816 addresses -- it won't.
38817 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
38818 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
38819 for google.com" problem.
38820 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
38821 so it's not just "unknown platform".
38822 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
38823 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
38824 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
38825 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
38827 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
38828 they could use instead.
38829 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
38830 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
38831 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
38832 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
38833 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
38834 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
38835 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
38836 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
38837 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
38839 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
38843 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
38844 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
38846 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
38847 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
38848 private-IP addresses.
38849 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
38850 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
38852 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
38853 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
38854 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
38855 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
38856 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
38857 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
38858 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
38860 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
38861 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
38862 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
38863 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
38864 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
38865 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
38866 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
38867 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
38869 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
38871 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
38872 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
38873 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
38874 whether the server is hibernating.
38877 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
38878 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
38879 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
38880 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
38881 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
38882 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
38883 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
38884 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
38885 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
38886 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
38887 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
38888 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
38889 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
38890 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
38891 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
38893 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
38894 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
38895 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
38896 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
38897 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
38898 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
38899 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
38900 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
38901 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
38902 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
38903 existing torrc files.
38904 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
38907 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
38908 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
38909 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
38910 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
38911 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
38912 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
38913 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
38914 the win32 SYSTEM account.
38915 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
38916 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
38917 file descriptors available.
38918 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
38919 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
38920 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
38923 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
38924 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
38925 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
38926 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
38928 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
38929 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
38930 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
38931 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
38932 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
38934 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
38935 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
38936 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
38937 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
38938 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
38939 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
38940 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
38941 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
38942 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
38943 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
38944 800kB/s of capacity.
38945 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
38948 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
38949 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
38950 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
38951 need as much processor time.
38952 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
38953 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
38954 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
38955 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
38956 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
38957 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
38958 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
38959 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
38960 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
38961 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
38962 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
38963 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
38965 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
38966 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
38967 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
38968 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
38969 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
38970 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
38971 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
38974 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
38975 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
38976 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
38978 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
38979 style address, then we'd crash.
38980 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
38981 a dirserver is broken.
38982 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
38984 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
38985 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
38986 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
38988 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
38989 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
38990 name out of the warning/assert messages.
38991 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
38992 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
38993 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
38995 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
38996 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
38997 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
38999 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
39001 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
39002 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
39003 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
39004 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
39005 values at once couldn't work.
39006 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
39007 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
39008 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
39009 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
39010 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
39011 they can handle any number of routers.
39012 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
39013 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
39014 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
39015 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
39016 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
39017 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
39018 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
39019 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
39020 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
39023 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
39024 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
39025 - Make hibernation actually work.
39026 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
39027 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
39028 don't use the stream status code.
39031 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
39033 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
39034 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
39036 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
39039 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
39040 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
39041 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
39042 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
39043 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
39044 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
39045 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
39046 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
39047 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
39048 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
39050 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39051 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
39052 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
39053 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
39054 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
39055 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
39056 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
39057 - Make unit tests work on win32.
39060 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
39061 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
39062 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
39064 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
39065 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
39066 than just chopping them off.
39067 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
39069 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39070 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
39071 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
39072 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
39073 right after sending the begin cell.
39074 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
39075 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
39076 exit nodes too. Oops.
39079 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
39080 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
39081 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
39082 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
39083 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
39084 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
39085 the user knows which one it's talking about.
39086 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
39087 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
39088 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
39091 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
39092 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39093 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
39094 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
39096 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
39098 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
39099 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
39100 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
39102 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
39103 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
39104 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
39105 Clip rather than rejecting.
39106 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
39107 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
39110 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
39111 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
39112 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
39113 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
39115 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
39118 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
39119 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39120 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
39121 win32 socket errors better.
39123 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
39124 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
39127 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
39128 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39129 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
39130 so we don't see those messages days later.
39132 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
39133 - Make tor-resolve work again.
39134 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
39135 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
39138 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
39139 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
39140 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
39141 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
39143 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
39144 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
39145 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
39148 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
39149 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39150 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
39151 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
39152 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
39153 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
39154 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
39155 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
39156 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
39158 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
39159 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
39160 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
39161 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
39163 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
39164 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
39167 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
39168 hibernation properties by
39169 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
39170 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
39171 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
39172 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
39173 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
39174 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
39175 get back to normal.)
39176 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
39178 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
39179 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
39180 to fill the last cell completely.
39181 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
39184 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
39185 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39186 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
39187 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
39188 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
39189 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
39190 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
39191 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
39192 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
39193 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
39194 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
39196 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
39197 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
39198 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
39199 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
39200 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
39201 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
39202 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
39203 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
39205 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
39206 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
39207 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
39208 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
39209 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
39210 have it on start-up.
39213 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
39214 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
39215 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
39216 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
39217 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
39218 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
39219 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
39220 configuration to torrc.
39221 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
39222 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
39223 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
39224 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
39225 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
39227 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
39228 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
39229 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
39230 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
39231 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
39232 log more informatively.
39233 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
39234 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
39235 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
39236 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
39237 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
39238 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
39239 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
39240 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
39241 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
39242 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
39243 from each other, to hinder linkability.
39246 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
39247 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
39248 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
39249 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
39250 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
39251 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
39252 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
39254 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
39255 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
39256 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
39257 they ran out of file descriptors.
39258 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
39259 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
39260 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
39261 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
39262 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
39263 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
39264 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
39266 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
39269 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
39270 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
39271 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
39272 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
39273 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
39274 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
39275 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
39276 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
39277 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
39278 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
39279 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
39280 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
39281 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
39282 with the control port.
39283 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
39284 use in authenticating to the control interface.
39285 - New log format in config:
39286 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
39287 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
39290 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
39291 from their dirserver.
39292 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
39294 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
39295 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
39296 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
39297 them act more like real nodes.
39298 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
39299 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
39301 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
39302 nickname to its identity key.
39303 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
39304 not on the command line.
39305 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
39306 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
39307 1024) file descriptors.
39309 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
39310 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
39312 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
39313 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
39314 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
39317 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
39318 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
39319 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
39320 exit policy, not reject *:*.
39321 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
39322 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
39323 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
39324 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
39325 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
39326 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
39327 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
39330 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
39331 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
39332 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
39333 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
39334 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
39335 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
39336 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
39339 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
39340 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39341 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
39342 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
39343 the ones we find in directories.)
39344 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
39346 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
39347 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
39349 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
39350 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
39351 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
39353 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
39354 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
39355 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
39356 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
39358 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
39359 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
39360 any more exit policy lines.
39363 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
39364 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
39365 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
39366 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
39367 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
39368 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
39369 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
39370 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
39371 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
39372 will be able to get a directory.
39373 - Http proxy support
39374 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
39375 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
39376 be routed through this host.
39377 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
39378 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
39379 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
39380 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
39383 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
39385 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
39386 clients/servers with an open dirport.
39387 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
39388 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
39389 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
39390 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
39391 intermittent connections.
39392 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
39393 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
39395 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
39396 in reporting stats locally.
39397 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
39398 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
39399 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
39402 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
39404 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
39405 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
39408 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
39410 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
39411 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
39412 if you don't want it open.
39413 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
39414 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
39415 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
39416 intermittent connections.
39417 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
39419 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
39420 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
39421 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
39422 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
39423 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
39424 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
39425 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
39426 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
39427 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
39428 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
39429 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
39430 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
39431 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
39432 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
39433 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
39434 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
39437 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
39438 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
39439 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
39440 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
39441 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
39443 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
39445 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
39446 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
39447 specified in HTTP 1.0.
39448 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
39449 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
39450 than once per minute.
39451 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
39452 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
39455 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
39456 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
39459 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
39460 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
39461 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
39462 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
39465 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
39466 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
39468 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
39469 don't put it into the client dns cache.
39470 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
39471 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
39472 until we get our next directory.
39474 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
39475 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
39476 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
39477 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
39478 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
39479 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
39480 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
39481 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
39482 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
39483 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
39484 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
39486 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
39488 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
39489 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
39491 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
39492 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
39493 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
39495 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
39497 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
39498 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
39499 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
39500 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
39501 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
39502 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
39503 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
39504 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
39507 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
39508 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
39509 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
39510 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
39513 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
39514 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
39515 ask them to resolve the host "".
39518 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
39519 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
39520 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
39521 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
39522 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
39523 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
39524 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
39525 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
39526 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
39527 clients don't use this yet.)
39528 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
39529 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
39530 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
39531 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
39532 for pointing out this bug.)
39533 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
39534 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
39535 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
39536 kazaa, gnutella ports.
39537 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
39539 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
39540 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
39541 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
39542 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
39543 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
39544 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
39545 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
39546 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
39547 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
39548 wolf unpredictably.
39549 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
39550 that's still handshaking.
39551 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
39552 you'll choose it for your path.
39553 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
39554 end relay cell, etc.
39555 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
39556 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
39557 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
39560 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
39561 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
39563 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
39564 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
39565 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
39566 list to decide who's running or verified.
39567 - Bugfixes and features:
39568 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
39569 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
39570 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
39571 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
39572 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
39573 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
39575 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
39576 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
39577 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
39578 know you might want to get it verified.
39579 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
39582 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
39584 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
39585 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
39586 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
39587 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
39589 o Protocol changes:
39590 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
39591 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
39592 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
39593 hadn't heard of before.
39596 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
39597 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
39598 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
39599 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
39600 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
39601 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
39602 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
39603 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
39604 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
39605 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
39606 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
39607 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
39608 - Directory caching.
39609 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
39610 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
39611 directory they've pulled down.
39612 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
39613 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
39614 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
39615 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
39616 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
39617 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
39618 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
39620 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
39621 This isn't used yet.
39622 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
39623 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
39624 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
39625 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
39626 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
39627 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
39628 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
39629 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
39630 - File and name management:
39631 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
39632 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
39634 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
39635 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
39636 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
39637 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
39638 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
39639 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
39640 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
39642 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
39643 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
39644 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
39645 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
39646 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
39648 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
39649 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
39650 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
39651 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
39652 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
39653 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
39654 - New docs in the tarball:
39656 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
39659 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
39660 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
39661 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
39664 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
39665 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
39666 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
39669 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
39670 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
39673 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
39674 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
39675 - Make it build on Win32 again.
39676 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
39677 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
39681 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
39683 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
39684 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
39685 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
39686 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
39687 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
39688 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
39689 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
39690 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
39691 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
39692 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
39695 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
39698 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
39699 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
39700 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
39701 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
39703 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
39704 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
39705 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
39707 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
39708 hidden service per 15-minute period.
39709 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
39710 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
39711 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
39712 o Fixes for security bugs:
39713 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
39714 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
39715 a trusted dirserver.
39717 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
39718 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
39719 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
39720 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
39721 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
39722 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
39723 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
39724 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
39725 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
39726 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
39728 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
39729 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
39730 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
39731 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
39733 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
39734 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
39735 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
39736 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
39737 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
39738 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
39739 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
39740 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
39741 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
39742 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
39743 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
39744 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
39745 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
39748 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
39749 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
39750 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
39751 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
39754 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
39755 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
39756 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
39757 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
39758 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
39759 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
39760 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
39764 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
39765 [version bump only]
39768 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
39769 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
39770 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
39771 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
39772 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
39774 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
39777 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
39778 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
39779 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
39780 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
39781 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
39782 o Better debugging for tls errors
39783 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
39784 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
39785 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
39786 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
39787 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
39788 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
39789 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
39790 o win32's close can't close a socket.
39793 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
39794 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
39795 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
39796 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
39797 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
39798 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
39799 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
39800 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
39801 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
39802 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
39803 just close the circ.
39804 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
39805 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
39806 (this was quite rare).
39809 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
39810 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
39811 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
39812 if you decrypted them correctly.
39813 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
39814 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
39815 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
39818 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
39819 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
39820 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
39821 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
39822 a second one and it works.
39823 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
39824 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
39825 alice would just have to wait to time out.
39826 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
39827 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
39828 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
39829 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
39830 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
39831 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
39832 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
39833 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
39834 i'd still like to find the bug though.
39835 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
39837 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
39841 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
39842 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
39843 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
39844 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
39845 he retries a couple of times
39846 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
39847 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
39848 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
39849 too long (they were sticking around forever).
39850 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
39854 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
39855 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
39856 - make hup work again
39857 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
39858 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
39859 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
39860 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
39861 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
39862 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
39864 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
39865 o changes from 0.0.5:
39866 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
39867 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
39868 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
39869 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
39870 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
39872 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
39873 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
39874 in-memory directories too
39877 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
39878 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
39881 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
39883 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
39884 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
39885 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
39886 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
39889 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
39890 [version bump only]
39893 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
39894 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
39896 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
39897 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
39898 but that aren't warnings
39901 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
39902 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
39903 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
39904 the dns farm to do it.
39905 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
39906 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
39908 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
39909 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
39910 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
39913 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
39914 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
39915 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
39916 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
39917 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
39918 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
39919 expect it to have a nickname.
39920 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
39921 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
39924 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
39925 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
39929 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
39930 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
39931 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
39932 - include missing header fcntl.h
39933 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
39934 - deal with hardware word alignment
39935 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
39936 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
39937 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
39938 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
39939 by kill -USR1 currently.
39940 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
39941 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
39942 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
39945 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
39946 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
39947 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
39950 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
39952 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
39953 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
39954 - And fix a few endian issues.
39957 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
39959 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
39960 try that circuit again: try a new one.
39961 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
39962 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
39963 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
39964 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
39965 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
39966 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
39968 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
39969 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
39970 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
39972 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
39974 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
39975 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
39976 side isn't reading right then.
39977 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
39978 RecommendedVersions
39979 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
39980 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
39981 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
39984 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
39986 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
39987 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
39990 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
39994 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
39996 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
39997 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
39998 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
39999 connection is finished.
40000 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
40001 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
40002 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
40003 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
40004 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
40005 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
40006 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
40007 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
40008 rather than warn and continue.
40009 - Make --version work
40010 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
40013 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
40015 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
40016 knows it's working.
40017 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
40018 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
40020 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
40021 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
40022 so you can collect coredumps there.
40024 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
40025 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
40026 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
40027 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
40028 dns cache actually gets populated.
40029 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
40030 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
40031 end cell down it first.
40032 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
40033 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
40036 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
40038 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
40039 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
40041 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
40042 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
40043 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
40044 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
40045 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
40046 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
40048 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
40050 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
40051 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
40052 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
40053 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
40054 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
40055 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
40057 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
40058 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
40061 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
40063 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
40064 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
40065 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
40066 tor. It even has a man page.
40067 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
40068 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
40069 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
40070 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
40072 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
40074 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
40077 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
40079 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
40080 it, apt-getters. :)
40081 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
40082 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
40083 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
40084 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
40085 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
40086 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
40087 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
40088 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
40089 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
40090 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
40091 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
40093 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
40094 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
40097 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
40099 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
40100 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
40103 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
40105 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
40106 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
40107 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
40108 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
40109 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
40110 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
40111 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
40112 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
40113 logfile so you know it's working.
40114 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
40115 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
40118 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
40120 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
40121 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
40122 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
40125 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
40127 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
40128 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
40129 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
40132 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
40133 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
40134 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
40136 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
40137 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
40139 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
40140 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
40141 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
40143 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
40144 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
40148 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
40150 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
40151 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
40152 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
40155 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
40156 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
40157 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
40158 - Add port ranges to exit policies
40159 - Add a conservative default exit policy
40160 - Warn if you're running tor as root
40161 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
40162 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
40163 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
40164 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
40166 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
40169 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
40170 o Robustness and bugfixes:
40171 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
40172 really screw things up.
40173 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
40175 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
40176 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
40178 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
40179 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
40180 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
40181 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
40182 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
40183 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
40186 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
40189 - Change default loglevel to warn.
40190 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
40191 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
40193 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
40196 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
40197 o Robustness and bugfixes:
40198 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
40199 - to get ownership/permissions right
40200 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
40201 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
40202 pull down a directory again
40203 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
40204 causing server crashes
40205 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
40206 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
40207 - exit if bind() fails
40208 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
40209 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
40210 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
40211 - fix minor bias in PRNG
40212 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
40215 - Wrote the design document (woo)
40217 o Circuit building and exit policies:
40218 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
40220 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
40221 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
40222 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
40223 exists, rather than failing
40224 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
40225 which AP connections are standing by
40226 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
40227 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
40228 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
40230 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
40231 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
40234 - APPort is now called SocksPort
40235 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
40237 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
40238 hardcoded (for dirservers)
40239 - Reloads config on HUP
40240 - Usage info on -h or --help
40241 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
40244 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
40245 o General stability:
40246 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
40247 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
40248 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
40249 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
40250 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
40251 to take down the network when I approve a new router
40252 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
40255 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
40256 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
40258 o Autoconf improvements:
40259 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
40260 - Make install now works
40261 - create var/lib/tor on make install
40262 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
40263 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
40265 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
40266 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
40267 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
40268 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup