1 Changes in version 0.4.7.3-alpha - 2021-12-15
2 This third alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series fixes several bugs including
3 two major ones affecting Bridges and Relays (see below). If you are running
4 an earlier 0.4.7.x version, you should upgrade to this version.
6 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
7 - Make Tor work reliably again when you have multiple bridges
8 configured and one or more of them are unreachable. The problem
9 came because we require that we have bridge descriptors for both
10 of our first two bridges (else we refuse to try to connect), but
11 in some cases we would wait three hours before trying to fetch
12 these missing descriptors, and/or never recover when we do try to
13 fetch them. Fixes bugs 40396 and 40495; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc
16 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
17 - Change the MetricsPort DNS "timeout" label to be "tor_timeout" in
18 order to indicate that this was a DNS timeout from tor perspective
19 and not the DNS server itself.
20 - Deprecate overload_dns_timeout_period_secs and
21 overload_dns_timeout_scale_percent consensus parameters as well.
22 They were used to assess the overload state which is no more now.
23 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
24 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
25 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
26 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
28 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
29 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
30 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
33 o Minor features (compilation):
34 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
35 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
36 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
37 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
40 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
41 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
43 o Minor features (geoip data):
44 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
45 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
47 o Minor features (portability):
48 - Try to prevent a compiler warning about printf arguments that
49 could sometimes occur on MSYS2 depending on the configuration.
52 o Minor bugfix (pluggable transport):
53 - Do not kill a managed proxy if one of its transport configurations
54 emits a method error. Instead log a warning and continue processing
55 method arguments. Fixes bug 7362; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
57 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
58 - When we don't yet have a descriptor for one of our bridges,
59 disable the entry guard retry schedule on that bridge. The entry
60 guard retry schedule and the bridge descriptor retry schedule can
61 conflict, e.g. where we mark a bridge as "maybe up" yet we don't
62 try to fetch its descriptor yet, leading Tor to wait (refusing to
63 do anything) until it becomes time to fetch the descriptor. Fixes
64 bug 40497; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
66 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
67 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
68 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
69 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
70 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
72 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
73 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
74 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
75 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
76 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
77 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
79 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
80 - When we no longer have enough directory information to use the
81 network, we would log a notice-level message -- but we would not
82 reliably log a message when we recovered and resumed using the
83 network. Now make sure there is always a corresponding message
84 about recovering. Fixes bug 40496; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
86 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
87 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
88 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
89 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
90 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
91 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
93 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
94 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
95 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
96 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
97 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
99 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
100 - Fix the sandbox on i386 by modifying it to allow the
101 "clock_gettime64" and "statx" system calls and to filter the
102 "chown32" and "stat64" system calls in place of "chown" and
103 "stat", respectively. Fixes bug 40505; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
105 o Documentation (man, relay):
106 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
107 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
109 Changes in version 0.4.6.9 - 2021-12-15
110 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One important
111 piece is the removal of DNS timeout metric from the overload general signal.
112 See below for more details.
114 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
115 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
116 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
117 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
118 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
120 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
121 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
122 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
125 o Minor features (compilation):
126 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
127 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
128 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
129 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
132 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
133 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
135 o Minor features (geoip data):
136 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
137 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
139 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
140 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
141 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
142 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
143 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
145 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
146 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
147 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
148 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
149 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
151 o Documentation (man, relay):
152 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
153 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
156 Changes in version 0.4.7.2-alpha - 2021-10-26
157 This second alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series adds two major
158 features: congestion control (prop324) for network performance, and
159 the MiddleOnly flag (prop335) voted by the authorities to pin relays
160 to the middle position for various network health reasons. This
161 release also fixes numerous bugs.
163 The congestion control feature, detailed in proposal 324, still needs
164 more work before we can enable it by default. It is currently in its
165 testing and tuning phase which means that you should expect more
166 0.4.7.x alphas as congestion control gets stabilized and tuned for
167 optimal performance. And so, at this release, it can not be used
168 without a custom patch.
170 o Major features (congestion control):
171 - Implement support for flow control over congestion controlled
172 circuits. This work comes from proposal 324. Closes ticket 40450.
174 o Major features (directory authority):
175 - Add a new consensus method to handle MiddleOnly specially. When
176 enough authorities are using this method, then any relay tagged
177 with the MiddleOnly flag will have its Exit, Guard, HSDir, and
178 V2Dir flags automatically cleared, and will have its BadExit flag
179 automatically set. Implements part of proposal 335.
180 - Authorities can now be configured to label relays as "MiddleOnly".
181 When voting for this flag, authorities automatically vote against
182 Exit, Guard, HSDir, and V2Dir; and in favor of BadExit. Implements
183 part of proposal 335. Based on a patch from Neel Chauhan.
185 o Major bugfix (relay, metrics):
186 - On the MetricsPort, the DNS error statistics are not reported by
187 record type ("record=...") anymore due to a libevent bug
188 (https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/1219). Fixes bug
189 40490; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
191 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
192 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
193 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
194 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
195 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
196 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
197 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
199 o Minor feature (authority, relay):
200 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.4.2.x, 0.4.3.x,
201 0.4.4.x and 0.4.5 alphas/rc. Closes ticket 40480.
203 o Minor feature (onion service v2):
204 - Onion service v2 addresses are now not recognized anymore by tor
205 meaning a bad hostname is returned when attempting to pass it on a
206 SOCKS connection. No more deprecation log is emitted client side.
208 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
209 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
211 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
212 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
215 o Minor features (logging, heartbeat):
216 - When a relay receives a cell that isn't encrypted properly for it,
217 but the relay is the last hop on the circuit, the relay now counts
218 how many cells of this kind it receives, on how many circuits, and
219 reports this information in the log. Previously, we'd log each
220 cell at PROTOCOL_WARN level, which is far too verbose to be
221 useful. Fixes part of ticket 40400.
223 o Minor features (testing):
224 - We now have separate fuzzers for the inner layers of v3 onion
225 service descriptors, to prevent future bugs like 40392. Closes
228 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
229 - Fix compilation error when __NR_time is not defined. Fixes bug
230 40465; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
232 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth, bandwidth scanner):
233 - Add the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth dirauth config parameter
234 to avoid voting on bandwidth scanner weights to v3 directory
235 authorities. Fixes bug 40471; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Patch by
238 o Minor bugfixes (fragile-hardening, sandbox):
239 - When building with --enable-fragile-hardening, add or relax Linux
240 seccomp rules to allow AddressSanitizer to execute normally if the
241 process terminates with the sandbox active. This has the side
242 effect of disabling the filtering of file- and directory-open
243 requests on most systems and dilutes the effectiveness of the
244 sandbox overall, as a wider range of system calls must be
245 permitted. Fixes bug 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
247 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
248 - If a channel has never received or transmitted a cell, or seen a
249 client, do not calculate time diffs against 1/1/1970 but log a
250 better prettier message. Fixes bug 40182; bugfix on 0.2.4.4.
252 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
253 - Fix a warning BUG that would occur often on heavily loaded onion
254 service leading to filling the logs with useless warnings. Fixes
255 bug 34083; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
257 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
258 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
259 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
261 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, config):
262 - Fix a memory leak for a small config line string that could occur
263 if the onion service failed to be configured from file properly.
264 Fixes bug 40484; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
266 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
267 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
268 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
269 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
270 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
271 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
272 - Note that due to #40476 which removes v2 support entirely, this
273 log line is not emitted anymore. We still mention this in the
274 changelog because it is a Low-severity TROVE.
276 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
277 - Do not log "RENDEZVOUS1 cell with unrecognized rendezvous cookie"
278 at LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. This warning can
279 happen naturally if a client gives up on a rendezvous circuit
280 after sending INTRODUCE1. Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix
282 - Do not log "circuit_receive_relay_cell failed" at
283 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. In every case where we
284 would want to log this as a protocol warning, we are already
285 logging another warning from inside circuit_receive_relay_cell.
286 Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
288 o Code simplification and refactoring:
289 - Lower the official maximum for "guard-extreme-restriction-percent"
290 to 100. This has no effect on when the guard code will generate a
291 warning, but it makes the intent of the option clearer. Fixes bug
292 40486; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
295 - Add unit tests for the Linux seccomp sandbox. Resolves
298 o Code simplification and refactoring (rust):
299 - Remove Rust support and its associated code. It is unsupported and
300 Rust focus should be shifted to arti. Closes ticket 40469.
302 o Testing (CI, chutney):
303 - Bump the data size that chutney transmits to 5MBytes in order to
304 trigger the flow control and congestion window code. Closes
308 Changes in version 0.4.6.8 - 2021-10-26
309 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One
310 highlight is a fix on how we track DNS timeouts to report general
313 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
314 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
315 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
316 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
317 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
318 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
319 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
321 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
322 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
325 o Minor features (testing):
326 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
327 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
328 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
329 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
330 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
331 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
332 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
333 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
334 fix for ticket 40337.
335 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
336 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
337 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
339 o Minor bugfix (onion service):
340 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
341 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
342 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
343 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
344 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
345 - Improve logging when a bad HS version is given. Fixes bug 40476;
346 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
348 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
349 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
350 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
352 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
353 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
354 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
355 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
356 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
359 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
360 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
361 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
362 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
363 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
364 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
367 Changes in version 0.4.5.11 - 2021-10-26
368 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
369 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
370 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
371 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
372 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
373 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
376 o Major feature (onion service v2):
377 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
378 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
379 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
380 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
382 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
383 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
384 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
385 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
387 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
388 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
389 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
390 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
392 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
393 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
396 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.6.5):
397 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
398 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
399 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
400 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
402 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.6.8):
403 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
404 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
405 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
406 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
407 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
408 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
409 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
410 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
411 fix for ticket 40337.
412 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
413 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
414 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
416 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
417 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
418 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
420 o Minor bugfix (onion service, backport from 0.4.6.8):
421 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
422 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
423 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
424 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
425 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
427 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
428 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
429 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
430 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
431 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
434 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
435 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
436 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
437 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
438 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
440 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008, backport from 0.4.6.8):
441 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
442 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
443 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
444 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
445 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
448 Changes in version 0.3.5.17 - 2021-10-26
449 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
450 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
451 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
452 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
453 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
454 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
457 o Major feature (onion service v2, backport from 0.4.5.11):
458 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
459 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
460 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
461 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
463 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
464 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
465 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
466 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
468 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
469 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
470 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
471 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
473 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
474 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
477 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
478 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
479 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
480 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
481 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
485 Changes in version 0.4.7.1-alpha - 2021-09-17
486 This version is the first alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series. One
487 major feature is Vanguards Lite, from proposal 333, to help mitigate
488 guard discovery attacks against onion services. It also includes
491 o Major features (Proposal 332, onion services, guard selection algorithm):
492 - Clients and onion services now choose four long-lived "layer 2"
493 guard relays for use as the middle hop in all onion circuits.
494 These relays are kept in place for a randomized duration averaging
495 1 week. This mitigates guard discovery attacks against clients and
496 short-lived onion services such as OnionShare. Long-lived onion
497 services that need high security should still use the Vanguards
498 addon (https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards). Closes ticket
499 40363; implements proposal 333.
501 o Minor features (bridge testing support):
502 - Let external bridge reachability testing tools discard cached
503 bridge descriptors when setting new bridges, so they can be sure
504 to get a clean reachability test. Implements ticket 40209.
506 o Minor features (fuzzing):
507 - When building with --enable-libfuzzer, use a set of compiler flags
508 that works with more recent versions of the library. Previously we
509 were using a set of flags from 2017. Closes ticket 40407.
511 o Minor features (testing configuration):
512 - When TestingTorNetwork is enabled, skip the permissions check on
513 hidden service directories. Closes ticket 40338.
514 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
515 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
516 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
517 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
518 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
519 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
520 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
521 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
522 fix for ticket 40337.
523 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
524 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
525 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
527 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
528 - Don't send STOP circuit padding cells when the other side has
529 already shut down the corresponding padding machine. Fixes bug
530 40435; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
532 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
533 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
534 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
535 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
536 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
539 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
540 - Allows the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
541 sandbox is enabled. Makes SAVECONF keep only one backup file, to
542 simplify implementation. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
543 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
545 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
546 - Adjust the heartbeat log message about distinct clients to
547 consider the HeartbeatPeriod rather than a flat 6-hour delay.
548 Fixes bug 40330; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
550 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
551 - Add spaces between the "and" when logging the "Your server has not
552 managed to confirm reachability for its" on dual-stack relays.
553 Fixes bug 40453; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
555 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
556 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
557 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
558 connections before uploading a new descriptor which leads to
559 wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit path
560 selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
562 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
563 - Fix a fencepost issue when we check stability_last_downrated where
564 we called rep_hist_downrate_old_runs() twice. Fixes bug 40394;
565 bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
567 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
568 - Fix a bug that prevented some tests from running with the correct
569 names. Fixes bug 40365; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
572 - Add links to original tor design paper and anonbib to
573 docs/HACKING/README.1st.md. Closes ticket 33742. Patch from
575 - Describe the "fingerprint-ed25519" file in the tor.1 man page.
576 Fixes bug 40467; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
579 Changes in version 0.4.6.7 - 2021-08-16
580 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor,
581 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone
582 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion
583 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
585 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
586 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between
587 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature
588 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered
589 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue
590 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on
591 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and
592 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence.
594 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
595 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
597 o Minor features (geoip data):
598 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
599 retrieved on 2021/08/12.
601 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
602 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna.
603 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry
606 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
607 - Send back the extended SOCKS error 0xF6 (Onion Service Invalid
608 Address) for a v2 onion address. Fixes bug 40421; bugfix
611 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
612 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW
613 in order to reduce CPU load on the directory relays. Fixes bug
614 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
616 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping):
617 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
618 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
619 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
620 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
621 which could result in assertion failures when calculating voting
622 schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
625 Changes in version 0.4.5.10 - 2021-08-16
626 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor,
627 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone
628 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion
629 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
631 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
632 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between
633 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature
634 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered
635 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue
636 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on
637 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and
638 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence.
640 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
641 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
643 o Minor features (geoip data):
644 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
645 retrieved on 2021/08/12.
647 o Minor features (testing):
648 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
649 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
652 o Minor bugfix (crypto, backport from 0.4.6.7):
653 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna.
654 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry
657 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.7):
658 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
659 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
661 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping, backport from 0.4.6.7):
662 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
663 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
664 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
665 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
666 which could result in assertion failures when calculating voting
667 schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
669 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, portability, backport from 0.4.6.6):
670 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
671 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
674 Changes in version 0.3.5.16 - 2021-08-16
675 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor,
676 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone
677 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion
678 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
680 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
681 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between
682 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature
683 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered
684 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue
685 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on
686 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and
687 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence.
689 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
690 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
692 o Minor features (geoip data):
693 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
694 retrieved on 2021/08/12.
696 o Minor bugfix (crypto, backport from 0.4.6.7):
697 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna.
698 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry
701 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.7):
702 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
703 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
706 Changes in version 0.4.6.6 - 2021-06-30
707 Tor 0.4.6.6 makes several small fixes on 0.4.6.5, including one that
708 allows Tor to build correctly on older versions of GCC. You should
709 upgrade to this version if you were having trouble building Tor
710 0.4.6.5; otherwise, there is probably no need.
712 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
713 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
714 that does not support const variables in static initializers.
715 Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.6.5.
716 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
717 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
719 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
720 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
721 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
725 Changes in version 0.4.5.9 - 2021-06-14
726 Tor 0.4.5.9 fixes several security issues, including a
727 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
728 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
729 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
731 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
732 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
733 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
734 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
735 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
736 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
737 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
739 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
740 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
741 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
742 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
743 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
744 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
745 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
746 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
748 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
749 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
750 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
751 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
752 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
753 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
754 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
755 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
756 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
757 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
758 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
759 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
760 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
761 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
762 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
764 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
765 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
766 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
767 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
770 o Minor features (geoip data):
771 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
772 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
774 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
775 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
776 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
777 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
778 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
779 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
782 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
783 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
784 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
788 Changes in version 0.4.4.9 - 2021-06-14
789 Tor 0.4.4.9 fixes several security issues, including a
790 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
791 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
792 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
794 Note that the scheduled end-of-life date for the Tor 0.4.4.x series is
795 June 15. This is therefore the last release in its series. Everybody
796 still running 0.4.4.x should plan to upgrade to 0.4.5.x or later.
798 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
799 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
800 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
801 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
802 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
803 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
804 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
806 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
807 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
808 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
809 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
810 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
811 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
812 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
813 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
815 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
816 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
817 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
818 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
819 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
820 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
821 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
822 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
823 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
824 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
825 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
826 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
827 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
828 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
829 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
831 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
832 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
833 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
834 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
837 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
838 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
839 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
841 o Minor features (geoip data):
842 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
843 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
845 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
846 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
847 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
848 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
850 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
851 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
852 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
855 Changes in version 0.3.5.15 - 2021-06-14
856 Tor 0.3.5.15 fixes several security issues, including a
857 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
858 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
859 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
861 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
862 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
863 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
864 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
865 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
866 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
867 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
869 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
870 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
871 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
872 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
873 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
874 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
875 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
876 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
878 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
879 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
880 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
881 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
882 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
883 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
884 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
885 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
886 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
887 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
888 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
889 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
890 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
891 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
892 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
894 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
895 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
896 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
898 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
899 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
900 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
901 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
904 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
905 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
906 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
908 o Minor features (geoip data):
909 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
910 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
913 Changes in version 0.4.6.5 - 2021-06-14
914 Tor 0.4.6.5 is the first stable release in its series. The 0.4.6.x
915 series includes numerous features and bugfixes, including a significant
916 improvement to our circuit timeout algorithm that should improve
917 observed client performance, and a way for relays to report when they are
920 This release also includes security fixes for several security issues,
921 including a denial-of-service attack against onion service clients,
922 and another denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should
923 upgrade to one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
925 Below are the changes since 0.4.6.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
926 since 0.4.5.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
928 o Major bugfixes (security):
929 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
930 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
931 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
932 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
933 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
934 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
936 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth):
937 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
938 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
939 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
940 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
941 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
942 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
943 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
945 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
946 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
947 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
948 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
949 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
950 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
951 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
952 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
953 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
954 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
955 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
956 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
957 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
958 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
959 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
961 o Minor features (geoip data):
962 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
963 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
965 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
966 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
967 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
968 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
969 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
972 Changes in version 0.4.6.4-rc - 2021-05-28
973 Tor 0.4.6.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous releases. This, we hope,
974 the final release candidate in its series: unless major new issues are
975 found, the next release will be stable.
977 o Minor features (compatibility):
978 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
979 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
980 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
983 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling):
984 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
985 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
986 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
987 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
989 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
990 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
991 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
992 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
993 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
994 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
997 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
998 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
999 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
1003 - Remove unneeded code for parsing private keys in directory
1004 documents. This code was only used for client authentication in v2
1005 onion services, which are now unsupported. Closes ticket 40374.
1008 Changes in version 0.4.5.8 - 2021-05-10
1009 Tor 0.4.5.8 fixes several bugs in earlier version, backporting fixes
1010 from the 0.4.6.x series.
1012 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1013 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
1014 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
1015 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
1016 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
1018 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1019 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
1020 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
1022 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1023 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1024 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1026 o Minor features (geoip data):
1027 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1028 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
1030 o Minor features (onion services):
1031 - Add warning message when connecting to now deprecated v2 onion
1032 services. As announced, Tor 0.4.5.x is the last series that will
1033 support v2 onions. Closes ticket 40373.
1035 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1036 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
1037 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
1038 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
1040 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1041 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
1042 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
1043 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1045 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1046 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
1047 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
1048 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
1050 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1051 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1052 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1054 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.4.6.1-alpha):
1055 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
1056 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
1057 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1059 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1060 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
1061 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
1062 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1064 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1065 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
1066 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
1070 Changes in version 0.4.6.3-rc - 2021-05-10
1071 Tor 0.4.6.3-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
1072 a few small bugs from previous versions, and adds a better error
1073 message when trying to use (no longer supported) v2 onion services.
1075 Though we anticipate that we'll be doing a bit more clean-up between
1076 now and the stable release, we expect that our remaining changes will
1077 be fairly simple. There will likely be at least one more release
1078 candidate before 0.4.6.x is stable.
1080 o Major bugfixes (onion service, control port):
1081 - Make the ADD_ONION command properly configure client authorization.
1082 Before this fix, the created onion failed to add the client(s).
1083 Fixes bug 40378; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1085 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox):
1086 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
1087 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
1088 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
1089 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
1091 o Minor features (compilation):
1092 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
1093 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
1095 o Minor features (geoip data):
1096 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1097 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
1099 o Minor features (onion services):
1100 - Add a warning message when trying to connect to (no longer
1101 supported) v2 onion services. Closes ticket 40373.
1103 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation):
1104 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
1105 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
1106 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1108 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
1109 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1110 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1112 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
1113 - Emit a warning if an Address is found to be internal and tor can't
1114 use it. Fixes bug 40290; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1116 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak):
1117 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
1118 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
1119 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1122 Changes in version 0.4.6.2-alpha - 2021-04-15
1123 Tor 0.4.6.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes several
1124 small bugs in previous releases, and solves other issues that had
1125 enabled denial-of-service attacks and affected integration with
1128 o Minor features (client):
1129 - Clients now check whether their streams are attempting to re-enter
1130 the Tor network (i.e. to send Tor traffic over Tor), and close
1131 them preemptively if they think exit relays will refuse them for
1132 this reason. See ticket 2667 for details. Closes ticket 40271.
1134 o Minor features (command line):
1135 - Add long format name "--torrc-file" equivalent to the existing
1136 command-line option "-f". Closes ticket 40324. Patch by
1139 o Minor features (dormant mode):
1140 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option to allow coarse-grained
1141 control over whether the client ever becomes dormant from
1142 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
1144 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
1145 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1146 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1148 o Minor features (geoip data):
1149 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1150 retrieved on 2021/04/13.
1152 o Minor features (logging):
1153 - Edit heartbeat log messages so that more of them begin with the
1154 string "Heartbeat: ". Closes ticket 40322; patch
1157 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport):
1158 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
1159 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
1160 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
1162 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS):
1163 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
1164 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
1165 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
1167 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1168 - Fix a compilation warning about unused functions when building
1169 with a libc that lacks the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC constant. Fixes bug
1170 40354; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1172 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
1173 - Fix pattern-matching for directories on all platforms when using
1174 %include options in configuration files. This patch also fixes
1175 compilation on musl libc based systems. Fixes bug 40141; bugfix
1178 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1179 - Move the "overload-general" line from extrainfo to the server
1180 descriptor. Fixes bug 40364; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1182 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD):
1183 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
1184 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
1187 o Documentation (manual):
1188 - Move the ServerTransport* options to the "SERVER OPTIONS" section.
1190 - Indicate that the HiddenServiceStatistics option also applies to
1191 bridges. Closes ticket 40346.
1192 - Move the description of BridgeRecordUsageByCountry to the section
1193 "STATISTICS OPTIONS". Closes ticket 40323.
1196 Changes in version 0.4.6.1-alpha - 2021-03-18
1197 Tor 0.4.6.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.4.6.x series. It
1198 improves client circuit performance, adds missing features, and
1199 improves some of our DoS handling and statistics reporting. It also
1200 includes numerous smaller bugfixes.
1202 Below are the changes since 0.4.5.7. (Note that this release DOES
1203 include the fixes for the security bugs already fixed in 0.4.5.7.)
1205 o Major features (control port, onion services):
1206 - Add controller support for creating version 3 onion services with
1207 client authorization. Previously, only v2 onion services could be
1208 created with client authorization. Closes ticket 40084. Patch by
1211 o Major features (directory authority):
1212 - When voting on a relay with a Sybil-like appearance, add the Sybil
1213 flag when clearing out the other flags. This lets a relay operator
1214 know why their relay hasn't been included in the consensus. Closes
1215 ticket 40255. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1217 o Major features (metrics):
1218 - Relays now report how overloaded they are in their extrainfo
1219 documents. This information is controlled with the
1220 OverloadStatistics torrc option, and it will be used to improve
1221 decisions about the network's load balancing. Implements proposal
1222 328; closes ticket 40222.
1224 o Major features (relay, denial of service):
1225 - Add a new DoS subsystem feature to control the rate of client
1226 connections for relays. Closes ticket 40253.
1228 o Major features (statistics):
1229 - Relays now publish statistics about the number of v3 onion
1230 services and volume of v3 onion service traffic, in the same
1231 manner they already do for v2 onions. Closes ticket 23126.
1233 o Major bugfixes (circuit build timeout):
1234 - Improve the accuracy of our circuit build timeout calculation for
1235 60%, 70%, and 80% build rates for various guard choices. We now
1236 use a maximum likelihood estimator for Pareto parameters of the
1237 circuit build time distribution, instead of a "right-censored
1238 estimator". This causes clients to ignore circuits that never
1239 finish building in their timeout calculations. Previously, clients
1240 were counting such unfinished circuits as having the highest
1241 possible build time value, when in reality these circuits most
1242 likely just contain relays that are offline. We also now wait a
1243 bit longer to let circuits complete for measurement purposes,
1244 lower the minimum possible effective timeout from 1.5 seconds to
1245 10ms, and increase the resolution of the circuit build time
1246 histogram from 50ms bin widths to 10ms bin widths. Additionally,
1247 we alter our estimate Xm by taking the maximum of the top 10 most
1248 common build time values of the 10ms histogram, and compute Xm as
1249 the average of these. Fixes bug 40168; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
1250 - Remove max_time calculation and associated warning from circuit
1251 build timeout 'alpha' parameter estimation, as this is no longer
1252 needed by our new estimator from 40168. Fixes bug 34088; bugfix
1255 o Major bugfixes (signing key):
1256 - In the tor-gencert utility, give an informative error message if
1257 the passphrase given in `--create-identity-key` is too short.
1258 Fixes bug 40189; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1260 o Minor features (bridge):
1261 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1262 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1263 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1265 o Minor features (build system):
1266 - New "make lsp" command to auto generate the compile_commands.json
1267 file used by the ccls server. The "bear" program is needed for
1268 this. Closes ticket 40227.
1270 o Minor features (command-line interface):
1271 - Add build informations to `tor --version` in order to ease
1272 reproducible builds. Closes ticket 32102.
1273 - When parsing command-line flags that take an optional argument,
1274 treat the argument as absent if it would start with a '-'
1275 character. Arguments in that form are not intelligible for any of
1276 our optional-argument flags. Closes ticket 40223.
1277 - Allow a relay operator to list the ed25519 keys on the command
1278 line by adding the `rsa` and `ed25519` arguments to the
1279 --list-fingerprint flag to show the respective RSA and ed25519
1280 relay fingerprint. Closes ticket 33632. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1282 o Minor features (control port, stream handling):
1283 - Add the stream ID to the event line in the ADDRMAP control event.
1284 Closes ticket 40249. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1286 o Minor features (dormant mode):
1287 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option for coarse-grained
1288 control over whether the client can become dormant from
1289 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
1291 o Minor features (logging):
1292 - Change the DoS subsystem heartbeat line format to be more clear on
1293 what has been detected/rejected, and which option is disabled (if
1294 any). Closes ticket 40308.
1295 - In src/core/mainloop/mainloop.c and src/core/mainloop/connection.c,
1296 put brackets around IPv6 addresses in log messages. Closes ticket
1297 40232. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1299 o Minor features (performance, windows):
1300 - Use SRWLocks to implement locking on Windows. Replaces the
1301 "critical section" locking implementation with the faster
1302 SRWLocks, available since Windows Vista. Closes ticket 17927.
1303 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1305 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
1306 - Close HAProxy connections if they somehow manage to send us data
1307 before we start reading. Closes another case of ticket 40017.
1309 o Minor features (tests, portability):
1310 - Port the hs_build_address.py test script to work with recent
1311 versions of python. Closes ticket 40213. Patch from
1314 o Minor features (vote document):
1315 - Add a "stats" line to directory authority votes, to report various
1316 statistics that authorities compute about the relays. This will
1317 help us diagnose the network better. Closes ticket 40314.
1319 o Minor bugfixes (build):
1320 - The configure script now shows whether or not lzma and zstd have
1321 been used, not just if the enable flag was passed in. Fixes bug
1322 40236; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1324 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1325 - Fix a failure in the test cases when running on the "hppa"
1326 architecture, along with a related test that might fail on other
1327 architectures in the future. Fixes bug 40274; bugfix
1330 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1331 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
1332 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
1333 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1335 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, voting):
1336 - Add a new consensus method (31) to support any future changes that
1337 authorities decide to make to the value of bwweightscale or
1338 maxunmeasuredbw. Previously, there was a bug that prevented the
1339 authorities from parsing these consensus parameters correctly under
1340 most circumstances. Fixes bug 19011; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
1342 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
1343 - Allow non-SOCKSPorts to disable IPv4, IPv6, and PreferIPv4. Some
1344 rare configurations might break, but in this case you can disable
1345 NoIPv4Traffic and NoIPv6Traffic as needed. Fixes bug 33607; bugfix
1346 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1348 o Minor bugfixes (key generation):
1349 - Do not require a valid torrc when using the `--keygen` argument to
1350 generate a signing key. This allows us to generate keys on systems
1351 or users which may not run Tor. Fixes bug 40235; bugfix on
1352 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1354 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, logging):
1355 - Downgrade the severity of a few rendezvous circuit-related
1356 warnings from warning to info. Fixes bug 40207; bugfix on
1357 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1359 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1360 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
1361 This should reduce the CPU and memory burden for directory caches.
1362 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1364 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1365 - Remove the orconn_ext_or_id_map structure and related functions.
1366 (Nothing outside of unit tests used them.) Closes ticket 33383.
1367 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1370 - As of this release, Tor no longer supports the old v2 onion
1371 services. They were deprecated last July for security, and support
1372 will be removed entirely later this year. We strongly encourage
1373 everybody to migrate to v3 onion services. For more information,
1374 see https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline . Closes
1375 ticket 40266. (NOTE: We accidentally released an earlier version
1376 of the 0.4.6.1-alpha changelog without this entry. Sorry for
1379 o Code simplification and refactoring (metrics, DoS):
1380 - Move the DoS subsystem into the subsys manager, including its
1381 configuration options. Closes ticket 40261.
1383 o Removed features (relay):
1384 - Because DirPorts are only used on authorities, relays no longer
1385 advertise them. Similarly, self-testing for DirPorts has been
1386 disabled, since an unreachable DirPort is no reason for a relay
1387 not to advertise itself. (Configuring a DirPort will still work,
1388 for now.) Closes ticket 40282.
1391 Changes in version 0.3.5.14 - 2021-03-16
1392 Tor 0.3.5.14 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
1393 in earlier versions of Tor.
1395 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
1396 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
1397 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
1398 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
1399 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
1400 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
1401 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
1402 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
1403 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
1406 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
1407 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
1410 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
1411 compatibility issue.
1413 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1414 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
1415 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
1416 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
1417 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1418 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
1419 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
1420 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
1421 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
1424 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1425 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
1426 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
1427 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
1428 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
1429 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
1430 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
1431 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
1434 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1435 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
1436 Closes ticket 40309.
1439 Changes in version 0.4.4.8 - 2021-03-16
1440 Tor 0.4.4.8 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
1441 in earlier versions of Tor.
1443 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
1444 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
1445 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
1446 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
1447 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
1448 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
1449 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
1450 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
1451 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
1454 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
1455 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
1458 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
1459 compatibility issue.
1461 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1462 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
1463 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
1464 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
1465 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1466 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
1467 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
1468 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
1469 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
1472 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1473 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
1474 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
1475 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
1476 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
1477 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
1478 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
1479 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
1482 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1483 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
1484 Closes ticket 40309.
1487 Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16
1488 Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier
1491 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
1492 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
1493 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
1494 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
1495 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
1496 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
1497 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
1498 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
1499 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
1502 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
1503 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
1506 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few
1507 smaller bugs in earlier releases.
1509 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
1510 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
1511 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
1512 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
1513 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1514 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
1515 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
1516 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
1517 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
1520 o Minor features (geoip data):
1521 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
1522 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
1523 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
1524 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
1525 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
1526 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
1527 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
1530 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
1531 - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory
1532 authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable
1533 authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug
1534 40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc.
1536 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
1537 - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for
1538 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1540 o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay):
1541 - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would
1542 have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file
1543 had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line.
1544 Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1546 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
1547 - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing
1548 handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1550 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1551 - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with
1552 onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1554 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1555 - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure
1556 script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1558 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1559 - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6
1560 address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1561 - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when
1562 deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information
1563 from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing
1564 it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch
1565 at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300.
1567 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated):
1568 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
1569 Closes ticket 40309.
1572 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15
1573 The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten
1574 Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father.
1575 Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading
1576 the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For
1577 example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the
1578 v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador
1579 to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We
1580 loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his
1581 welcoming approach to growing our community.
1583 This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6
1584 address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators
1585 to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to
1586 help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes
1587 related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous
1588 smaller features and bugfixes.
1590 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
1591 since 0.4.4.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
1593 o Major bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
1594 - Fix a bug that prevented a relay from publishing its descriptor if
1595 an auto-discovered IPv6 that was found unreachable. Fixes bug
1596 40279; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1598 o Minor features (protocol versions):
1599 - Stop claiming to support the "DirCache=1" subprotocol version.
1600 Technically, we stopped supporting this subprotocol back in
1601 0.4.5.1-alpha, but we needed to wait for the authorities to stop
1602 listing it as "required" before we could drop it from the list.
1603 Closes ticket 40221.
1605 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1606 - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions,
1607 when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the
1608 current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but
1609 in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than
1610 the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1612 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
1613 - Fix a bug warning when a metrics port socket was unexpectedly
1614 closed. Fixes bug 40257; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha
1616 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1617 - Allow relays to have a RFC1918 address if PublishServerDescriptor
1618 is set to 0 and AssumeReachable is set to 1. This is to support
1619 the use case of a bridge on a local network, exposed via a
1620 pluggable transport. Fixes bug 40208; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1622 o Minor bugfixes (relay, config):
1623 - Fix a problem in the removal of duplicate ORPorts from the
1624 internal port list when loading the config file. We were removing
1625 the wrong ports, breaking valid torrc uses cases for multiple
1626 ORPorts of the same address family. Fixes bug 40289; bugfix
1630 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03
1631 Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
1632 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
1633 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
1634 DoS attacks harder to perform.
1636 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1637 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
1638 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
1639 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
1640 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
1643 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
1644 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
1645 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
1646 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
1649 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
1650 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
1651 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
1652 this. Closes ticket 40227.
1654 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
1655 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
1656 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
1657 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
1658 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
1660 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1661 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
1662 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
1663 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
1664 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
1665 weasel for diagnosing this.
1667 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
1668 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
1669 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
1670 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
1671 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
1672 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
1673 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
1675 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1676 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
1677 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
1678 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1680 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1681 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
1682 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
1683 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1685 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
1686 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
1687 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
1688 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1689 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
1690 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
1691 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
1693 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
1694 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1697 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03
1698 Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
1699 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
1700 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
1701 DoS attacks harder to perform.
1703 Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x,
1704 which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021.
1706 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1707 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
1708 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
1709 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
1710 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
1713 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
1714 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
1715 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
1716 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
1717 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1719 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
1720 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
1721 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
1722 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
1725 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
1726 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
1727 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
1728 this. Closes ticket 40227.
1730 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
1731 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
1732 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
1733 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
1734 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
1736 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1737 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
1738 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
1739 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
1740 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
1741 weasel for diagnosing this.
1743 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
1744 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
1745 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
1746 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
1747 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
1748 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
1749 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
1751 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
1752 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
1753 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1755 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1756 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
1757 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
1758 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1760 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1761 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
1762 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
1763 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1765 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
1766 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
1767 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
1768 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1769 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
1770 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
1771 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
1773 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
1774 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1777 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03
1778 Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
1779 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
1780 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
1781 DoS attacks harder to perform.
1783 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1784 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
1785 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
1786 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
1787 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
1790 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
1791 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
1792 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
1793 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
1794 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1796 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
1797 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
1798 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
1799 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
1802 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
1803 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
1804 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
1805 this. Closes ticket 40227.
1807 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
1808 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
1809 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
1810 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
1811 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
1813 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1814 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
1815 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
1816 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
1817 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
1818 weasel for diagnosing this.
1820 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
1821 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
1822 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
1823 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
1824 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
1825 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
1826 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
1828 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
1829 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
1830 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1832 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1833 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
1834 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
1835 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1837 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1838 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
1839 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
1840 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1842 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
1843 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
1844 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
1845 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
1847 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
1848 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1851 Changes in version 0.4.5.5-rc - 2021-02-01
1852 Tor 0.4.5.5-rc is the third release candidate in its series. We're
1853 coming closer and closer to a stable release series. This release
1854 fixes an annoyance with address detection code, and somewhat mitigates
1855 an ongoing denial-of-service attack.
1857 We anticipate no more code changes between this and the stable
1858 release, though of course that could change.
1860 o Major feature (exit):
1861 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
1862 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
1863 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
1866 o Minor bugfixes (relay, configuration):
1867 - Don't attempt to discover our address (IPv4 or IPv6) if no ORPort
1868 for it can be found in the configuration. Fixes bug 40254; bugfix
1872 Changes in version 0.4.5.4-rc - 2021-01-22
1873 Tor 0.4.5.4-rc is the second release candidate in its series. It fixes
1874 several bugs present in previous releases.
1876 We expect that the stable release will be the same, or almost the
1877 same, as this release candidate, unless serious bugs are found.
1879 o Major bugfixes (authority, IPv6):
1880 - Do not consider multiple relays in the same IPv6 /64 network to be
1881 sybils. Fixes bug 40243; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1883 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
1884 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
1885 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
1886 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
1887 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1889 o Minor feature (build system):
1890 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
1891 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
1892 this. Closes ticket 40227.
1894 o Minor features (authority, logging):
1895 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
1896 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
1897 Closes ticket 40245.
1898 - Reject obsolete router/extrainfo descriptors earlier and more
1899 quietly, to avoid spamming the logs. Fixes bug 40238; bugfix
1902 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1903 - Fix another warning about unreachable fallthrough annotations when
1904 building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on some compilers.
1905 Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.4.5.3-rc.
1906 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
1907 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
1908 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
1910 o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge):
1911 - Don't initiate a connection to a bridge configured to use a
1912 missing transport. This change reverts an earlier fix that would
1913 try to avoid such situations during configuration chcecking, but
1914 which doesn't work with DisableNetwork. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix
1917 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
1918 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
1919 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
1920 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
1922 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1923 - If we were unable to build our descriptor, don't mark it as having
1924 been advertised. Also remove an harmless BUG(). Fixes bug 40231;
1925 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1928 Changes in version 0.4.5.3-rc - 2021-01-12
1929 Tor 0.4.5.3-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
1930 several bugs, including one that broke onion services on certain older
1931 ARM CPUs, and another that made v3 onion services less reliable.
1933 Though we anticipate that we'll be doing a bit more clean-up between
1934 now and the stable release, we expect that our remaining changes will
1935 be fairly simple. There will be at least one more release candidate
1936 before 0.4.5.x is stable.
1938 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
1939 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
1940 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
1941 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
1942 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
1945 o Minor features (crypto):
1946 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
1947 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
1948 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
1949 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
1950 weasel for diagnosing this.
1952 o Minor features (documentation):
1953 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
1954 approved-routers file, and update the description of the
1955 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
1957 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1958 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
1959 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
1960 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1961 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
1962 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
1965 o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge):
1966 - Really fix the case where torrc has a missing ClientTransportPlugin
1967 but is configured with a Bridge line and UseBridges. Previously,
1968 we didn't look at the managed proxy list and thus would fail for
1969 the "exec" case. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1971 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
1972 - Log our address as reported by the directory authorities, if none
1973 was configured or detected before. Fixes bug 40201; bugfix
1975 - When a launching bandwidth testing circuit, don't incorrectly call
1976 it a reachability test, or trigger a "CHECKING_REACHABILITY"
1977 control event. Fixes bug 40205; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1979 o Minor bugfixes (relay, statistics):
1980 - Report the correct connection statistics in our extrainfo
1981 documents. Previously there was a problem in the file loading
1982 function which would wrongly truncate a state file, causing the
1983 wrong information to be reported. Fixes bug 40226; bugfix
1986 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5):
1987 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
1988 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
1989 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1992 Changes in version 0.4.5.2-alpha - 2020-11-23
1993 Tor 0.4.5.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series.
1994 It fixes several bugs present in earlier releases, including one that
1995 made it impractical to run relays on Windows. It also adds a few small
1996 safety features to improve Tor's behavior in the presence of strange
1997 compile-time options, misbehaving proxies, and future versions
2000 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
2001 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
2002 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
2003 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
2004 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
2005 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
2006 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2008 o Minor features (compilation):
2009 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2010 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2011 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2012 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2014 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
2015 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
2016 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
2017 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
2018 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
2020 o Minor features (safety):
2021 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
2022 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
2025 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
2026 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
2027 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
2028 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
2029 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
2030 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2032 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2033 - Use the correct 'ranlib' program when building libtor.a.
2034 Previously we used the default ranlib, which broke some kinds of
2035 cross-compilation. Fixes bug 40172; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2036 - Remove a duplicate typedef in metrics_store.c. Fixes bug 40177;
2037 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2038 - When USDT tracing is enabled, and STAP_PROBEV() is missing, don't
2039 attempt to build. Linux supports that macro but not the BSDs.
2040 Fixes bug 40174; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2042 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2043 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
2044 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
2045 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
2046 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
2047 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
2049 - Fix an issue where an ORPort was compared with other kinds of
2050 ports, when it should have been only checked against other
2051 ORPorts. This bug would lead to "DirPort auto" getting ignored.
2052 Fixes bug 40195; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2053 - Fix a bug where a second non-ORPort with a variant family (ex:
2054 SocksPort [::1]:9050) would be ignored due to a configuration
2055 parsing error. Fixes bug 40183; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2057 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
2058 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
2059 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
2060 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2062 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2063 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
2064 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
2066 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
2067 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
2068 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2070 o Minor bugfixes (relay, address discovery):
2071 - Don't trigger an IP change when no new valid IP can be found.
2072 Fixes bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2073 - When attempting to discover our IP, use a simple test circuit,
2074 rather than a descriptor fetch: the same address information is
2075 present in NETINFO cells, and is better authenticated there. Fixes
2076 bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2078 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2079 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
2080 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
2081 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2082 - Fix unit tests that used newly generated list of routers so that
2083 they check them with respect to the date when they were generated,
2084 not with respect to the current time. Fixes bug 40187; bugfix
2086 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2087 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2088 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2090 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2091 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2093 o Removed features (controller):
2094 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
2095 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
2098 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
2099 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
2100 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
2101 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
2102 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
2103 intended for a different relay.
2105 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2106 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
2107 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
2108 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
2109 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
2110 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
2111 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
2113 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2114 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
2115 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
2116 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
2117 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
2118 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
2119 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
2120 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
2121 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
2122 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
2123 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
2125 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2126 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
2127 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
2128 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
2129 closes ticket 40133.
2131 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2132 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
2133 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
2135 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
2136 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
2137 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2139 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2140 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
2141 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
2142 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
2143 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2144 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2146 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2147 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
2148 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
2150 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2151 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
2152 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
2155 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2156 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
2157 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
2158 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2161 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
2162 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
2163 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
2164 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
2165 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
2167 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
2168 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
2169 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
2172 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2173 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
2174 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
2175 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
2177 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2178 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
2179 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
2180 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
2181 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
2182 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
2183 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
2185 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2186 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
2187 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
2188 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
2189 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
2192 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2193 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
2194 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
2195 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
2196 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
2197 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
2199 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2200 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
2201 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
2202 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
2203 closes ticket 40133.
2205 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2206 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
2207 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
2208 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
2210 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2211 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
2212 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
2214 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
2215 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
2216 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2218 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2219 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
2220 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
2221 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
2222 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2224 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2225 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
2226 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
2228 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2229 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
2230 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
2231 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
2232 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
2233 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
2234 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2236 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2237 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
2238 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
2241 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2242 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
2243 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
2244 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
2245 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
2246 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
2249 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
2250 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
2251 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
2252 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2254 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2255 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
2256 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
2257 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2259 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2260 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
2261 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
2263 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2264 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
2267 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2268 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
2269 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
2270 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
2271 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
2272 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
2273 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
2276 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
2277 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
2278 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
2279 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
2280 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
2282 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2283 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
2284 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
2285 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
2287 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2288 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
2289 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
2290 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
2291 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
2292 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
2293 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
2295 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2296 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
2297 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
2298 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
2299 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
2302 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2303 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
2304 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
2305 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
2306 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
2307 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
2309 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
2310 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
2311 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
2312 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
2314 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2315 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
2316 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
2317 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
2318 closes ticket 40133.
2320 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2321 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
2322 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
2323 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
2325 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2326 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
2327 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
2329 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
2330 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
2331 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2333 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2334 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
2335 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
2336 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
2337 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2339 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2340 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
2341 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
2343 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2344 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
2345 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
2346 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
2347 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
2348 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
2349 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2351 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2352 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
2353 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
2356 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2357 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
2358 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
2359 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
2360 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
2361 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
2364 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2365 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
2366 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
2367 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2369 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
2370 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
2371 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
2372 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2374 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2375 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
2376 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
2378 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2379 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
2383 Changes in version 0.4.5.1-alpha - 2020-11-01
2384 Tor 0.4.5.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series. It
2385 improves support for IPv6, address discovery and self-testing, code
2386 metrics and tracing.
2388 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
2389 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
2390 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay. To
2391 mount this attack, the adversary would need to actively extend
2392 circuits to an incorrect address, as well as compromise a relay's
2393 legacy RSA-1024 key. We'll be backporting this fix to other release
2394 series soon, after it has had some testing.
2396 Here are the changes since 0.4.4.5.
2398 o Major features (build):
2399 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
2400 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
2401 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
2402 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
2403 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
2405 o Major features (metrics):
2406 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
2407 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
2408 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
2409 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
2410 information and security considerations.
2411 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
2412 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
2413 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
2414 Closes ticket 33233.
2415 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
2416 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
2417 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
2418 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
2419 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
2420 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
2421 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
2422 use. Closes ticket 33220.
2423 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
2424 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
2425 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
2426 Closes ticket 34067.
2428 o Major features (tracing):
2429 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
2430 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
2431 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
2432 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
2433 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
2435 o Major bugfixes (security):
2436 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
2437 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
2438 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
2439 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
2440 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
2441 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
2443 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
2444 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
2445 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
2446 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
2447 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
2448 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
2450 o Minor features (address discovery):
2451 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
2452 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
2453 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
2454 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
2456 o Minor features (admin tools):
2457 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
2458 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
2459 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
2462 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
2463 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
2464 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
2465 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
2466 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
2467 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
2469 o Minor features (build):
2470 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
2471 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
2472 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
2473 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
2474 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
2476 o Minor features (configuration):
2477 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
2478 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2479 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
2480 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
2481 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
2482 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2484 o Minor features (control port):
2485 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
2486 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
2487 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
2488 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
2490 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
2491 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
2492 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
2495 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
2496 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
2497 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
2498 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
2499 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
2500 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
2501 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2503 o Minor features (directory authorities):
2504 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
2505 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
2506 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
2507 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
2508 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
2509 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
2510 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
2511 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
2513 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
2514 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
2515 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2516 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
2517 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
2518 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
2519 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
2520 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
2521 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
2522 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
2523 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
2524 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
2525 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
2526 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
2527 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
2529 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
2530 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
2531 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
2532 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
2534 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
2535 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
2536 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
2537 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2539 o Minor features (heartbeat):
2540 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
2541 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
2543 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
2544 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
2545 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2547 o Minor features (logging):
2548 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
2549 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
2550 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
2551 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
2552 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
2553 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
2555 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
2556 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
2557 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
2558 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
2560 o Minor features (onion services):
2561 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
2562 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
2563 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2565 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
2566 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
2567 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
2568 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
2569 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
2570 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
2572 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
2573 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
2574 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
2575 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
2576 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
2577 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
2578 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
2580 o Minor features (relay):
2581 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
2582 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
2583 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
2584 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
2585 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
2586 Closes ticket 34137.
2588 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
2589 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
2590 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
2593 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
2594 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
2595 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
2596 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
2597 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
2598 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
2599 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
2600 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
2601 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
2603 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
2604 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
2606 o Minor features (specification update):
2607 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
2608 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
2609 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
2611 o Minor features (state management):
2612 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
2613 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
2614 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
2615 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
2616 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
2618 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
2619 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
2620 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
2621 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
2622 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
2624 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
2625 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
2626 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
2627 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
2628 closes ticket 40133.
2629 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
2630 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
2632 o Minor features (testing configuration):
2633 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
2634 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
2635 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
2636 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
2638 o Minor features (testing):
2639 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
2640 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
2642 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services):
2643 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
2644 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
2646 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
2647 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
2648 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2650 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
2651 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
2652 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
2653 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
2655 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
2656 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
2657 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2658 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
2659 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
2660 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
2661 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
2662 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
2663 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2665 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
2666 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2667 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2668 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2669 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2670 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2671 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2673 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2674 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
2675 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
2676 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
2677 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2678 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2680 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2681 - Fix bug where %including a pattern ending with */ would include
2682 files and folders (instead of folders only) in versions of glibc <
2683 2.19. Fixes bug 40141; bugfix on 0.4.5.0-alpha-dev. Patch by
2686 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
2687 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
2688 when a stream is attached with the purpose
2689 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
2690 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2692 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2693 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
2694 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
2695 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
2696 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
2697 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
2698 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
2699 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
2702 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash):
2703 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
2704 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
2707 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
2708 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
2709 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
2710 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2711 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
2712 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
2713 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2715 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
2716 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
2717 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
2718 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
2719 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
2720 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2722 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
2723 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
2724 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2726 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
2727 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
2728 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2729 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
2730 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
2731 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
2732 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
2733 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2735 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services):
2736 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
2737 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
2738 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2740 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2741 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
2742 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
2743 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
2744 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
2745 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
2746 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
2747 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
2748 Closes ticket 34200.
2749 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
2750 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
2751 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
2752 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
2753 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
2754 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
2755 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
2757 - Split implementation of several command line options from
2758 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
2759 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
2760 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
2761 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
2762 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
2765 o Deprecated features:
2766 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
2767 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
2768 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
2771 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
2772 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
2775 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
2776 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
2777 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
2778 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
2780 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
2781 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
2783 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
2784 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
2785 directory. Closes part of 40139.
2786 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
2787 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
2791 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
2792 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
2794 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
2795 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
2796 31699; Patch by @bduszel
2798 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
2799 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
2800 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
2801 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
2802 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
2804 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
2805 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
2806 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
2807 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
2808 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
2810 o Documentation (manual page):
2811 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
2812 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
2813 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
2814 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
2816 o Documentation (tracing):
2817 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
2818 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
2821 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
2822 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
2823 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
2824 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
2825 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
2826 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
2827 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
2829 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
2830 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
2831 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
2832 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
2833 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
2835 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
2836 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
2837 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
2839 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
2840 since 0.4.3.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
2842 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
2843 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
2844 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
2845 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
2846 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
2847 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2849 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
2850 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2851 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2852 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
2853 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2855 o Minor features (control port):
2856 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
2857 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
2858 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2860 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
2861 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
2862 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
2863 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
2864 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
2865 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
2867 o Minor features (tests):
2868 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
2869 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
2870 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
2872 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection algorithm):
2873 - Avoid needless guard-related warning when upgrading from 0.4.3 to
2874 0.4.4. Fixes bug 40105; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
2876 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
2877 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
2878 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
2879 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2882 Changes in version 0.4.4.3-alpha - 2020-07-27
2883 Tor 0.4.4.3-alpha fixes several annoyances in previous versions,
2884 including one affecting NSS users, and several affecting the Linux
2887 o Major features (fallback directory list):
2888 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
2889 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
2890 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
2892 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
2893 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
2894 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
2895 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
2896 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
2899 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2900 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
2901 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
2902 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
2903 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
2905 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
2906 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
2907 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
2908 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
2911 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
2912 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
2913 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
2914 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
2915 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
2916 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
2920 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
2921 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
2922 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
2925 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
2926 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
2927 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
2928 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
2929 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
2930 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
2933 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
2934 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
2935 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
2937 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
2938 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
2939 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
2940 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
2941 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
2942 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
2943 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
2946 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2947 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
2948 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2949 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
2952 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2953 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
2954 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
2955 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
2956 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
2957 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
2959 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2960 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
2961 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
2962 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
2963 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
2964 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
2966 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2967 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
2968 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
2970 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2971 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
2972 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
2973 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
2976 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2977 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
2978 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
2979 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
2982 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
2983 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
2984 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
2985 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
2986 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
2988 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2989 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
2990 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
2992 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2993 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
2994 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
2995 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
2996 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
2999 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3000 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
3001 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
3002 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
3003 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
3004 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3006 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3007 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3008 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3009 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3011 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3012 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
3013 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
3014 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3017 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3018 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
3019 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
3020 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
3021 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
3022 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3023 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
3024 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
3028 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
3029 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
3030 several that affect usability and portability.
3032 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3033 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3034 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3035 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3036 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3037 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3038 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3041 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3042 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3043 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3044 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3047 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3048 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
3049 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
3050 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
3051 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
3052 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3054 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
3055 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
3056 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
3057 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
3058 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
3060 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3061 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
3062 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
3063 code. Closes ticket 33290.
3065 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3066 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3067 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3068 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3069 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3070 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3072 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3073 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3074 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3076 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3077 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
3078 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
3079 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
3082 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3083 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3084 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3085 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3088 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
3089 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
3090 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
3091 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
3092 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3093 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
3096 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3097 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3098 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3100 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3101 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
3102 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
3103 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3105 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3106 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
3107 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
3108 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
3109 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
3112 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3113 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
3114 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
3115 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
3116 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
3117 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3119 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
3120 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
3121 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
3122 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
3123 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3125 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3126 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
3127 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
3128 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
3130 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3131 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3132 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3133 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3135 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3136 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
3137 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
3138 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3141 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3142 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
3143 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
3144 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
3145 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
3146 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3147 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
3148 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
3152 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
3153 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
3154 some affecting usability.
3156 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3157 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3158 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3159 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3160 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3161 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3162 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3165 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3166 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3167 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3168 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3171 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3172 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3173 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3175 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3176 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3177 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3178 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3181 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3182 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3183 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3185 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3186 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
3187 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
3188 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3190 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3191 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3192 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3193 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3195 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3196 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
3197 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3199 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3200 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
3201 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
3202 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
3203 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3205 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3206 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
3207 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
3209 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3210 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
3211 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
3212 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3214 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3215 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
3219 Changes in version 0.4.4.2-alpha - 2020-07-09
3220 This is the second alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It fixes a few
3221 bugs in the previous release, and solves a few usability,
3222 compatibility, and portability issues.
3224 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3225 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3226 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3227 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3228 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3229 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3230 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3233 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security):
3234 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3235 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3236 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3239 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
3240 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
3241 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
3242 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
3243 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
3246 o Minor features (directory authority):
3247 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
3248 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
3249 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
3250 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
3251 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
3253 o Minor features (entry guards):
3254 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
3255 Closes ticket 40001.
3257 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
3258 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
3259 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
3260 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
3261 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
3262 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
3263 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
3265 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows):
3266 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3267 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3269 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3 client):
3270 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
3271 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3273 o Minor bugfix (SOCKS, onion service client):
3274 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
3275 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
3278 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
3279 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3280 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3282 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
3283 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
3284 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
3285 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3287 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3288 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3289 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3290 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3292 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
3293 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
3294 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
3297 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
3298 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3301 o Removed features (IPv6, revert):
3302 - Revert the change in the default value of ClientPreferIPv6OrPort:
3303 it breaks the torsocks use case. The SOCKS resolve command has no
3304 mechanism to ask for a specific address family (v4 or v6), and so
3305 prioritizing IPv6 when an IPv4 address is requested on the SOCKS
3306 interface resulted in a failure. Tor Browser explicitly sets
3307 PreferIPv6, so this should not affect the majority of our users.
3308 Closes ticket 33796; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
3311 Changes in version 0.4.4.1-alpha - 2020-06-16
3312 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It improves
3313 our guard selection algorithms, improves the amount of code that
3314 can be disabled when running without relay support, and includes numerous
3315 small bugfixes and enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6
3316 features that we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
3318 Here are the changes since 0.4.3.5.
3320 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
3321 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
3322 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
3323 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
3324 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
3325 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
3326 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
3327 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
3328 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
3329 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
3331 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
3332 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
3333 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
3334 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
3335 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
3336 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
3337 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
3339 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
3341 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
3342 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
3343 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
3344 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
3346 o Major features (v3 onion services):
3347 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
3348 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
3349 Closes ticket 32709.
3351 o Minor feature (developer tools):
3352 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
3353 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
3355 o Minor feature (onion service client, SOCKS5):
3356 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
3357 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
3358 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
3361 o Minor feature (onion service v3):
3362 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
3363 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3365 o Minor feature (python scripts):
3366 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
3367 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
3368 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
3369 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
3371 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
3372 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
3373 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
3374 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
3375 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
3377 o Minor features (code safety):
3378 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
3379 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
3380 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
3381 Resolves issue 33788.
3383 o Minor features (compilation size):
3384 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
3385 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
3387 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3388 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
3389 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
3390 Resolves ticket 32143.
3392 o Minor features (control port):
3393 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
3394 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
3395 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
3396 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3398 o Minor features (developer tooling):
3399 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
3400 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
3401 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
3402 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
3403 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
3405 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
3406 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
3407 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
3408 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
3410 o Minor features (directory):
3411 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
3412 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
3413 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
3416 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
3417 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
3418 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
3420 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
3421 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
3422 Closes ticket 33901.
3424 o Minor features (logging):
3425 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
3426 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
3428 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
3429 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
3430 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
3431 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
3432 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
3433 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
3434 up from ticket 33316.
3436 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
3437 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
3438 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
3439 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3441 o Minor features (windows):
3442 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
3443 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
3445 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3):
3446 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
3447 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
3448 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
3449 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3451 o Minor bugfix (refactoring):
3452 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
3453 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
3454 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
3456 o Minor bugfixes (client performance):
3457 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3458 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3459 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3462 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3463 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
3464 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
3465 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
3466 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
3467 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
3469 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
3470 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
3471 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
3472 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3474 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
3475 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
3476 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
3477 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
3478 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3480 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
3481 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
3482 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3484 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
3485 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
3486 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
3487 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
3488 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
3489 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3490 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
3491 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
3492 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
3493 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3495 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox nss):
3496 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
3497 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
3498 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3500 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
3501 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
3502 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
3503 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
3504 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3506 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
3507 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
3508 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3510 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
3511 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
3512 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
3514 o Minor bugfixes (manual page):
3515 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
3516 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3518 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
3519 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
3520 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3523 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
3524 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
3525 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3527 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
3528 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
3529 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
3531 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
3532 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
3533 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
3536 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
3537 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
3538 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
3539 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3541 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3542 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
3543 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
3544 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
3545 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3546 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
3547 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
3548 isolated in subsystems of their own.
3549 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
3550 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
3551 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
3552 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
3554 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
3555 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
3556 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
3557 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
3561 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
3562 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
3563 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3564 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
3568 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
3569 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
3570 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
3571 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
3572 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3573 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
3574 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
3577 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
3578 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
3579 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
3580 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
3581 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
3582 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3583 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
3584 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
3586 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
3587 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
3589 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
3590 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
3591 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
3592 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
3593 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
3594 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
3595 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
3596 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
3597 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
3598 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
3599 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
3600 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
3602 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service):
3603 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
3604 code. Closes ticket 33014.
3606 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
3607 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
3608 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
3610 o Documentation (manual page):
3611 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
3612 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
3613 Google Season of Docs.
3614 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
3615 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
3616 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
3617 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
3618 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
3619 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
3620 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
3621 Closes ticket 33778.
3624 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
3625 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
3626 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
3627 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
3628 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
3629 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
3632 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
3633 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
3634 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
3635 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
3636 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
3638 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
3639 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
3640 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
3643 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
3644 since 0.4.2.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
3646 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
3647 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
3648 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
3649 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
3650 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3651 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
3654 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3655 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
3656 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3657 - Fix a logic error in a log message about whether an address was
3658 invalid. Previously, the code would never report that onion
3659 addresses were onion addresses. Fixes bug 34131; bugfix
3663 Changes in version 0.4.3.4-rc - 2020-04-13
3664 Tor 0.4.3.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
3665 several bugs from earlier versions, including one affecting DoS
3666 defenses on bridges using pluggable transports.
3668 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
3669 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
3670 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
3671 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
3672 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
3673 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3675 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
3676 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
3677 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
3678 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
3679 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
3681 o Minor features (testing):
3682 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3683 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3684 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3685 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3686 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3688 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay):
3689 - Fix an assertion failure when Tor is built without the relay
3690 module, and then invoked with the "User" option. Fixes bug 33668;
3691 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3693 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay,--disable-module-dirauth):
3694 - Set some output arguments in the relay and dirauth module stubs,
3695 to guard against future stub argument handling bugs like 33668.
3696 Fixes bug 33674; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3698 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
3699 - Correctly output the enabled module in the configure summary.
3700 Before that, the list shown was just plain wrong. Fixes bug 33646;
3701 bugfix on 0.4.3.2-alpha.
3703 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
3704 - Stop forcing all non-SocksPorts to prefer IPv6 exit connections.
3705 Instead, prefer IPv6 connections by default, but allow users to
3706 change their configs using the "NoPreferIPv6" port flag. Fixes bug
3707 33608; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3708 - Revert PreferIPv6 set by default on the SocksPort because it broke
3709 the torsocks use case. Tor doesn't have a way for an application
3710 to request the hostname to be resolved for a specific IP version,
3711 but torsocks requires that. Up until now, IPv4 was used by default
3712 so torsocks is expecting that, and can't handle a possible IPv6
3713 being returned. Fixes bug 33804; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3715 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
3716 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
3717 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
3718 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
3719 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
3720 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3722 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3723 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
3724 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
3725 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
3726 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
3727 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
3730 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
3731 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
3732 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
3733 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
3734 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3735 - Block a client-side assertion by disallowing the registration of
3736 an x25519 client auth key that's all zeroes. Fixes bug 33545;
3737 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Based on patch from "cypherpunks".
3739 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3740 - Disable our coding standards best practices tracker in our git
3741 hooks. (0.4.3 branches only.) Closes ticket 33678.
3744 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
3745 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
3746 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
3747 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
3748 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
3752 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
3753 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
3754 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
3755 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
3756 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3757 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
3758 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
3762 Changes in version 0.4.3.3-alpha - 2020-03-18
3763 Tor 0.4.3.3-alpha fixes several bugs in previous releases, including
3764 TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected
3765 all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
3766 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
3767 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
3768 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
3769 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
3770 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
3771 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
3772 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
3775 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
3776 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
3777 as soon as packages are available.
3779 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
3780 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
3781 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
3782 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
3783 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
3784 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
3785 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3786 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
3787 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
3789 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
3790 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
3791 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
3792 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
3793 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
3795 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
3796 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
3797 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
3798 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
3799 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
3801 o Minor features (diagnostic):
3802 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
3803 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
3804 code. Closes ticket 33290.
3806 o Minor features (directory authorities):
3807 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
3808 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
3809 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3811 o Minor features (usability):
3812 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
3813 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
3814 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
3816 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
3817 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
3818 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
3819 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
3822 o Minor bugfixes (coding best practices checks):
3823 - Allow the "practracker" script to read unicode files when using
3824 Python 2. We made the script use unicode literals in 0.4.3.1-alpha,
3825 but didn't change the codec for opening files. Fixes bug 33374;
3826 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3828 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
3829 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
3832 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
3833 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
3834 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
3835 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3838 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
3839 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
3840 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
3841 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3844 o Documentation (manpage):
3845 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
3846 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
3847 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
3848 Google Season of Docs.
3849 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
3850 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
3852 o Testing (Travis CI):
3853 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3854 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
3855 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
3857 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
3858 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
3859 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
3860 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
3861 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
3864 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
3865 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
3866 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
3867 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
3868 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
3869 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
3870 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
3871 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
3872 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
3873 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
3874 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
3875 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
3877 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
3878 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
3879 as soon as packages are available.
3881 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3882 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
3883 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
3884 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
3885 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
3886 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
3887 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3888 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
3889 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
3891 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3892 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
3893 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
3894 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
3895 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
3897 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3898 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
3899 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
3900 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
3901 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
3903 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3904 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
3905 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
3906 Closes ticket 33075.
3908 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3909 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
3910 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
3912 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3913 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
3914 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
3915 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
3916 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
3919 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3920 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
3921 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
3922 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3925 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3926 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
3927 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
3928 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3930 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3931 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3932 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
3933 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
3935 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
3936 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
3937 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
3938 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
3939 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
3942 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
3943 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
3944 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
3945 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
3946 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
3947 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
3948 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
3949 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
3950 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
3951 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
3952 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
3953 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
3955 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
3956 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
3957 as soon as packages are available.
3959 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3960 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
3961 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
3962 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
3963 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
3964 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
3965 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3966 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
3967 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
3969 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3970 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
3971 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
3972 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
3973 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
3975 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3976 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
3977 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
3979 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3980 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
3981 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
3982 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
3983 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
3986 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3987 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
3988 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
3989 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3992 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3993 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
3994 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
3995 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3997 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3998 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3999 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4000 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4002 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4003 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4004 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4005 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4006 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4009 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
4010 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
4011 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
4012 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
4013 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
4014 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
4015 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
4016 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
4017 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
4018 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
4019 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
4022 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4023 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4024 as soon as packages are available.
4026 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4027 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4028 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4029 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4030 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4031 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4032 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4033 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4034 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4036 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4037 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4038 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4039 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4040 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
4041 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4042 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4043 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4046 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4047 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4048 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4049 Closes ticket 33075.
4051 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4052 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4053 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4055 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4056 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
4057 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
4058 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
4059 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4061 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4062 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4063 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4064 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4065 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4068 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4069 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4070 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4071 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4074 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4075 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4076 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4077 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4079 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4080 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
4081 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
4082 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
4083 Closes ticket 32629.
4084 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
4085 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
4086 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
4088 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4089 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
4091 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4092 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4093 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4094 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4096 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4097 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4098 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4099 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4102 Changes in version 0.4.3.2-alpha - 2020-02-10
4103 This is the second stable alpha release in the Tor 0.4.3.x series. It
4104 fixes several bugs present in the previous alpha release. Anybody
4105 running the previous alpha should upgrade, and look for bugs in this
4108 o Major bugfixes (onion service client, authorization):
4109 - On a NEWNYM signal, purge entries from the ephemeral client
4110 authorization cache. The permanent ones are kept. Fixes bug 33139;
4111 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4113 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
4114 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
4115 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
4116 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
4118 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4119 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
4120 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
4121 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4122 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4123 Closes ticket 33075.
4125 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4126 - Revise configure options that were either missing or incorrect in
4127 the configure summary. Fixes bug 32230; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4129 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4130 - Fix a memory leak introduced by refactoring of control reply
4131 formatting code. Fixes bug 33039; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4132 - Fix a memory leak in GETINFO responses. Fixes bug 33103; bugfix
4134 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
4135 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
4136 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4138 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4139 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4140 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4141 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4142 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4144 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
4145 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
4146 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
4147 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4149 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
4150 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
4151 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
4152 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
4154 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
4155 - When removing client authorization credentials using the control
4156 port, also remove the associated descriptor, so the onion service
4157 can no longer be contacted. Fixes bug 33148; bugfix
4160 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
4161 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
4162 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
4163 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4165 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
4166 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4167 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4168 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4170 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
4171 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
4172 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
4173 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
4174 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
4176 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
4177 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
4178 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
4180 o Documentation (manpage):
4181 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
4182 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
4183 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4186 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
4187 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
4188 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
4189 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
4190 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
4191 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
4193 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4194 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4195 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4196 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4197 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
4198 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4199 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4200 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4202 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
4203 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
4204 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
4206 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4207 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
4208 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
4209 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4211 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4212 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
4213 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
4214 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4216 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4217 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
4218 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
4219 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4220 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
4221 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
4224 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4225 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
4226 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4228 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4229 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
4230 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
4231 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
4232 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
4233 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
4234 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
4235 Closes ticket 32629.
4237 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4238 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
4241 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
4242 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
4243 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
4244 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
4245 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
4246 current version of 0.4.1.x.
4248 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4249 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4250 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4251 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4252 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
4253 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4254 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4255 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4257 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
4258 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
4259 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
4261 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
4262 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
4263 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
4264 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
4265 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4267 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4268 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
4269 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4271 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4272 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
4273 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
4274 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
4275 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
4276 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
4277 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
4278 Closes ticket 32629.
4280 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4281 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
4284 Changes in version 0.4.3.1-alpha - 2020-01-22
4285 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.3.x series. It includes
4286 improved support for application integration of onion services, support
4287 for building in a client-only mode, and newly improved internal
4288 documentation (online at https://src-ref.docs.torproject.org/tor/). It
4289 also has numerous other small bugfixes and features, as well as
4290 improvements to our code's internal organization that should help us
4291 write better code in the future.
4293 o New system requirements:
4294 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
4295 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
4296 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
4298 o Major features (build system):
4299 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
4300 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
4301 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
4302 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
4303 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
4305 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
4306 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
4307 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
4308 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
4309 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4311 o Major features (onion service, controller):
4312 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
4313 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
4314 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
4315 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
4317 o Major features (onion service, SOCKS5):
4318 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
4319 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
4320 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
4322 o Major features (proxy):
4323 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
4324 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
4325 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
4326 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
4327 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
4328 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
4330 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
4331 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4332 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4333 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4334 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
4335 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4336 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4337 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4339 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
4340 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
4341 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
4343 o Major bugfixes (networking):
4344 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
4345 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
4346 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4348 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
4349 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
4350 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
4351 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
4352 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
4353 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4355 o Minor feature (configure, build system):
4356 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
4357 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
4359 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
4360 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
4361 message. Closes ticket 31371.
4363 o Minor features (configuration validation):
4364 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
4365 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
4366 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
4367 Closes ticket 31241.
4369 o Minor features (configuration):
4370 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
4371 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
4373 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
4374 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
4375 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
4376 Implements ticket 32404.
4378 o Minor features (controller):
4379 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
4380 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
4381 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
4383 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
4384 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
4385 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
4386 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
4388 o Minor features (defense in depth):
4389 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
4390 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
4393 o Minor features (developer tooling):
4394 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
4395 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
4396 Closes ticket 32772.
4398 o Minor features (developer tools):
4399 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
4400 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
4401 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
4402 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
4403 target. Closes ticket 31919.
4404 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
4405 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
4406 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
4408 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
4409 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
4410 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
4411 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
4413 o Minor features (Doxygen):
4414 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
4415 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
4416 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
4418 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
4419 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
4420 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
4421 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
4422 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
4423 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
4424 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
4425 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
4427 o Minor features (git scripts):
4428 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
4429 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
4430 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
4431 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
4432 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
4433 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
4434 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
4435 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
4436 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
4437 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
4438 Closes ticket 32216.
4439 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
4440 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
4441 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
4442 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
4444 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
4445 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
4446 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
4447 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
4448 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
4449 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
4451 o Minor features (portability, android):
4452 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
4453 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
4454 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
4456 o Minor features (relay modularity):
4457 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
4458 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
4459 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
4460 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
4461 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
4462 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
4463 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
4465 o Minor features (relay):
4466 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
4467 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
4469 o Minor features (release tools):
4470 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
4471 Closes ticket 32704.
4473 o Minor features (testing):
4474 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
4475 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
4476 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
4477 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
4478 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
4479 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
4482 o Minor features (tests, Android):
4483 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
4484 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
4485 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
4487 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
4488 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4489 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4491 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4492 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
4493 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
4495 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
4496 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
4497 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
4498 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4500 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
4501 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
4502 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
4503 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
4504 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
4505 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
4506 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
4507 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
4508 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
4509 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
4510 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4511 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
4512 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
4513 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
4514 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4516 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4517 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
4518 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
4521 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks):
4522 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
4523 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
4524 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4526 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
4527 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
4528 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
4530 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
4531 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
4532 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
4533 Closes ticket 32213.
4534 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
4535 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
4536 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4538 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
4539 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
4540 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
4541 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
4542 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
4545 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
4546 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
4548 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
4549 Closes ticket 32216.
4551 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
4552 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
4553 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
4554 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
4557 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash):
4558 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
4559 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
4560 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4562 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
4563 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
4564 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
4565 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
4566 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
4569 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, client):
4570 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
4571 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
4572 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
4573 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
4574 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4576 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4577 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
4578 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
4579 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
4580 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4582 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
4583 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
4584 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4586 o Minor bugfixes (test):
4587 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
4588 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
4589 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
4592 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4593 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
4594 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4595 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
4596 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
4597 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4598 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
4599 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
4602 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
4603 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
4604 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
4605 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
4606 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
4607 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4609 o Minor bugfixes (windows service):
4610 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
4611 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4613 o Deprecated features:
4614 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
4615 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
4616 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
4620 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
4621 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
4622 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
4623 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
4624 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
4625 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
4626 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
4627 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
4629 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
4630 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
4633 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
4634 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
4635 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
4636 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
4637 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
4638 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
4640 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
4641 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
4642 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
4643 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
4644 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
4647 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
4648 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
4650 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
4651 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
4652 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
4653 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
4654 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
4655 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
4656 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
4657 Closes ticket 32629.
4658 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
4660 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
4661 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
4662 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
4664 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
4665 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
4666 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
4668 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
4669 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
4670 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
4671 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
4672 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
4673 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
4674 Solves part of ticket 32339.
4675 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
4676 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
4677 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
4678 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
4679 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
4680 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
4681 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
4682 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
4683 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
4684 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
4686 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
4687 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
4689 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
4690 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
4691 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
4693 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
4694 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
4695 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
4696 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
4697 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
4698 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
4700 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
4701 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
4702 Closes ticket 32163.
4703 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
4705 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
4707 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
4708 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
4709 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
4710 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
4711 Closes ticket 32304.
4712 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
4713 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
4714 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
4715 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
4716 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
4719 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
4720 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
4722 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
4725 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
4726 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
4727 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
4728 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
4729 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
4730 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
4731 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
4732 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
4734 o Documentation (manpage):
4735 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
4737 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
4739 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
4740 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
4741 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
4743 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
4744 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
4745 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4747 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
4748 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
4751 o Testing (continuous integration):
4752 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
4755 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
4756 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
4757 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
4758 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
4759 bugs present in previous series.
4761 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
4762 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
4763 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
4764 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
4766 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
4767 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
4768 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
4769 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
4771 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
4772 since 0.4.1.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
4774 o Minor features (geoip):
4775 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4776 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
4779 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
4780 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
4781 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
4782 Closes ticket 32500.
4785 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
4786 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
4787 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
4788 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
4790 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4791 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
4792 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
4793 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
4795 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4796 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
4797 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
4798 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4800 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4801 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
4802 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
4803 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
4804 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
4805 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
4806 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
4807 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4809 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4810 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
4811 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
4812 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
4813 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4815 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4816 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
4817 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
4818 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
4819 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
4822 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4823 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
4824 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
4825 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
4827 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
4828 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4829 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
4831 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4832 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
4833 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4835 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4836 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
4837 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
4838 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
4839 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
4840 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4842 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
4843 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
4844 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
4845 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
4847 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4848 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
4849 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
4850 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4851 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
4852 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
4853 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4854 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
4855 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
4856 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
4859 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4860 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
4861 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4862 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
4863 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4864 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
4865 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
4866 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
4867 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4869 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4870 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
4871 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
4872 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4874 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4875 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
4876 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
4877 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
4878 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
4881 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4882 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
4883 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
4885 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4886 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
4887 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
4889 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
4890 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
4891 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4893 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4894 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
4895 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
4896 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4898 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4899 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
4900 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
4901 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
4902 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4904 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4905 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
4906 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4908 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4909 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
4910 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
4913 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4914 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
4915 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
4917 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4918 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
4919 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
4920 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
4922 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
4923 Closes ticket 31859.
4924 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
4925 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
4927 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4928 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
4929 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
4930 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
4931 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
4932 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
4933 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
4934 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
4935 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
4936 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
4938 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
4939 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
4940 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
4941 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
4942 Closes ticket 32500.
4945 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
4946 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
4947 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
4948 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
4949 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
4951 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
4952 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
4953 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
4954 support until 1 Feb 2022.
4956 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
4957 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
4960 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4961 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
4962 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
4963 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
4964 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
4965 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
4966 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
4967 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
4968 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
4969 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
4970 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4972 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4973 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
4974 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
4975 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
4976 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
4977 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4979 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4980 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
4981 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
4982 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
4983 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
4986 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4987 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
4988 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
4989 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
4990 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
4992 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
4993 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
4994 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
4995 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
4998 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4999 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5000 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5001 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5002 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5003 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5004 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5005 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5007 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5008 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5009 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5010 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5011 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5013 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5014 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5015 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5016 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5017 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5020 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5021 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
5022 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
5024 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5025 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
5026 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
5029 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5030 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
5031 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
5033 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5034 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5035 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5036 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5038 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5039 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
5040 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
5041 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
5042 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
5044 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5045 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5046 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5048 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5049 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5050 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5053 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5054 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5055 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5057 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5058 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5059 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5061 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5062 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
5063 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5065 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5066 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
5067 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
5070 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5071 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5072 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5073 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5074 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5075 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5077 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5078 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
5079 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
5080 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
5081 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5083 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5084 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
5085 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
5088 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5089 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
5090 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5092 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5093 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5094 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5095 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5097 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5098 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
5099 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
5100 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5102 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5103 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
5104 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
5105 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5107 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5108 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5109 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5110 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5112 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5113 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
5114 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5115 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
5116 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5117 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
5118 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5120 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5121 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
5122 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
5123 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
5125 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5126 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
5127 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
5128 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5130 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5131 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
5132 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
5135 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5136 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5137 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5138 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5139 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5140 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5141 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5143 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5144 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5145 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5146 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5149 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5150 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5151 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5152 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5153 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5155 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5156 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
5157 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
5158 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
5159 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
5161 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5162 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5163 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5166 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5167 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5168 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5169 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5170 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5172 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5173 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5174 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5175 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5177 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5178 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5179 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5180 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5181 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5184 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5185 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
5186 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
5189 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5190 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
5191 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
5192 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5194 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5195 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
5196 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
5197 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
5199 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5200 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
5201 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
5202 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5204 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5205 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
5206 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
5207 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
5210 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5211 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
5212 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
5213 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
5214 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
5215 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
5218 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5219 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5220 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5222 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5223 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5224 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5226 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5227 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5228 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5229 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5231 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5232 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5233 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5235 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5236 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5237 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5238 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5239 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5241 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5242 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5243 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5246 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5247 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5248 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5249 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5250 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5251 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5252 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5253 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5254 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5255 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5257 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5258 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5259 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5260 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5262 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5263 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
5264 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
5265 Resolves issue 29702.
5267 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5268 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
5270 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5271 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
5272 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
5273 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
5276 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5277 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5278 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5279 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5281 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5282 Closes ticket 31859.
5283 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5284 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5286 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5287 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5288 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5289 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5290 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5291 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5292 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5293 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5294 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5295 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5297 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5298 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
5299 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
5300 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5301 Closes ticket 32500.
5303 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
5304 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
5305 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
5308 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
5309 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
5312 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5313 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
5314 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
5315 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
5316 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
5317 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
5318 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
5319 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
5320 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
5321 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
5322 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5324 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5325 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5326 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
5327 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
5328 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
5329 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5331 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5332 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
5333 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
5334 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
5335 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
5336 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5338 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5339 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
5340 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
5341 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
5342 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
5345 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5346 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
5347 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
5348 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
5349 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
5351 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
5352 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
5353 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
5354 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
5357 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5358 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5359 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5360 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5361 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5363 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5364 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5365 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5366 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5367 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5370 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5371 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
5372 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
5373 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
5374 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
5375 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
5376 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
5377 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5379 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5380 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
5381 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
5382 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
5383 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
5386 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5387 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
5388 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
5390 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5391 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
5392 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
5395 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
5396 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
5397 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
5398 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
5400 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5401 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
5402 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
5405 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5406 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
5407 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
5409 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5410 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5411 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5412 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5414 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5415 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
5416 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
5417 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
5418 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
5420 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5421 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5422 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5424 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5425 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
5426 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
5427 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
5429 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5430 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5431 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5434 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5435 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
5436 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
5437 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
5438 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
5439 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
5440 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
5441 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
5442 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
5443 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
5444 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
5445 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
5446 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
5449 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5450 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
5451 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
5452 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
5453 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
5455 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
5456 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
5457 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5459 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5460 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5461 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5463 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5464 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5465 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5467 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5468 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
5469 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
5472 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5473 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
5474 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5476 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5477 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5478 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5479 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5480 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5481 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5483 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5484 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
5485 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
5486 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
5487 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5489 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5490 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
5491 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
5494 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5495 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
5496 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5498 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5499 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
5500 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5502 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5503 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5504 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5505 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5507 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5508 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
5509 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
5510 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5512 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5513 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
5514 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
5515 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5517 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5518 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5519 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5520 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5522 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5523 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
5524 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5525 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
5526 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5527 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
5528 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5530 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5531 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
5532 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
5533 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
5535 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5536 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
5537 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
5538 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5540 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5541 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
5542 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
5545 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5546 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5547 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5548 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5549 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5550 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5551 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5553 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5554 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5555 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5556 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5559 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5560 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5561 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5562 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5563 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5565 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5566 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
5567 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5569 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5570 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
5571 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
5572 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
5573 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5574 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
5575 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
5576 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
5577 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5578 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
5579 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5581 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5582 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
5583 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
5584 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
5585 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
5587 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5588 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5589 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5592 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5593 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5594 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5595 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5596 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5598 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5599 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5600 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5601 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5603 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5604 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5605 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5606 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5607 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5610 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5611 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
5612 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
5615 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5616 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
5617 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
5618 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5620 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5621 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
5622 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
5623 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5625 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5626 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
5627 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5629 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5630 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
5631 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
5632 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5634 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5635 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
5636 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
5637 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
5640 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5641 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
5642 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
5643 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
5644 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
5645 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
5648 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5649 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5650 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5651 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5653 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
5654 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
5655 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5657 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5658 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5659 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5661 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5662 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
5663 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
5664 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
5665 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
5666 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
5667 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
5669 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5670 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
5671 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
5674 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5675 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
5676 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
5677 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
5678 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
5679 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
5680 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
5681 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5683 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5684 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
5685 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
5686 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5687 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
5688 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
5691 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5692 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5693 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5694 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5695 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5697 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
5698 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
5699 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
5700 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
5701 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
5702 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
5703 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
5704 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5706 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5707 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5708 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5711 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5712 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5713 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5714 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5715 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5716 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5717 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5718 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5719 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5720 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5722 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5723 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
5724 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
5725 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
5726 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
5727 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5729 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5730 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5731 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5732 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5734 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5735 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
5736 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
5737 Resolves issue 29702.
5739 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5740 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
5742 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5743 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
5744 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
5745 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
5748 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5749 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5750 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5751 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5753 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5754 Closes ticket 31859.
5755 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5756 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5758 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5759 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5760 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5761 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5762 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5763 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5764 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5765 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5766 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5767 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5769 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5770 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
5771 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
5772 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5773 Closes ticket 32500.
5775 Changes in version 0.4.2.4-rc - 2019-11-15
5776 Tor 0.4.2.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
5777 several bugs from earlier versions, including a few that would result in
5778 stack traces or incorrect behavior.
5780 o Minor features (build system):
5781 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
5782 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
5784 o Minor features (geoip):
5785 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5786 Country database. Closes ticket 32440.
5788 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
5789 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5790 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5791 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5792 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5793 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5795 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
5796 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
5797 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5799 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
5800 - Log the option name when skipping an obsolete option. Fixes bug
5801 32295; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5803 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
5804 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5805 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5806 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5807 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5809 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
5810 - When checking if a directory connection is anonymous, test if the
5811 circuit was marked for close before looking at its channel. This
5812 avoids a BUG() stacktrace if the circuit was previously closed.
5813 Fixes bug 31958; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5815 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
5816 - Fix minor shellcheck errors in the git-*.sh scripts. Fixes bug
5817 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5818 - Start checking most scripts for shellcheck errors again. Fixes bug
5819 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5821 o Testing (continuous integration):
5822 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5823 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5824 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5825 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5826 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5827 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5828 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5829 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5830 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5833 Changes in version 0.4.2.3-alpha - 2019-10-24
5834 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
5835 from earlier versions of Tor.
5837 o Major bugfixes (relay):
5838 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5839 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5840 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5841 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5842 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5843 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5844 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5846 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
5847 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5848 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5849 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5850 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5853 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
5854 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
5855 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
5856 Closes ticket 29669.
5858 o Minor features (testing):
5859 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
5860 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
5861 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
5862 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
5864 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
5865 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5866 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5867 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5869 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5870 Closes ticket 31859.
5871 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5872 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5874 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
5875 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
5876 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5877 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
5879 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
5880 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5881 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
5882 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
5883 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5885 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
5886 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5887 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5888 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5890 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
5891 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
5892 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
5894 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
5895 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5896 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5897 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5898 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5901 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
5902 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5903 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5905 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5906 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5907 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5909 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5910 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
5911 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
5913 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5914 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5915 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5916 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5918 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
5919 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5920 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5923 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
5924 - Fix an implicit conversion from ssize_t to size_t discovered by
5925 Coverity. Fixes bug 31682; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5926 - Fix a memory leak in an unlikely error code path when encoding HS
5927 DoS establish intro extension cell. Fixes bug 32063; bugfix
5929 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
5930 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
5931 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
5932 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5935 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
5936 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5937 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
5938 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
5939 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
5940 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
5943 Changes in version 0.4.2.2-alpha - 2019-10-07
5944 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
5945 from earlier versions. It also includes a change in authorities, so
5946 that they begin to reject the currently unsupported release series.
5948 o Major features (directory authorities):
5949 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
5950 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
5951 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
5953 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
5954 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
5955 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
5956 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5958 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
5959 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5960 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5961 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5962 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5964 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
5965 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
5966 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
5967 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
5968 Closes ticket 31779.
5970 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5971 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5972 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5973 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5975 o Minor features (geoip):
5976 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 1 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5977 Country database. Closes ticket 31931.
5979 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
5980 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
5981 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
5982 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
5983 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
5984 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
5985 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
5987 o Minor features (onion services v3):
5988 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
5989 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
5992 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
5993 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
5994 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5996 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
5997 - When listing overbroad exceptions, do not also list problems, and
5998 do not list insufficiently broad exceptions. Fixes bug 31338;
5999 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6001 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
6002 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
6003 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
6004 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6006 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6007 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
6008 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6009 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
6010 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6011 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6012 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6013 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6014 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6015 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
6016 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
6018 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
6019 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6020 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6021 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6023 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
6024 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
6025 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
6028 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
6029 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
6030 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
6032 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6033 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6034 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6035 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6037 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
6038 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
6039 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6041 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6042 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
6043 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
6044 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
6045 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
6046 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
6047 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
6049 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
6053 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
6054 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
6056 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
6057 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
6058 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
6059 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
6060 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
6061 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
6064 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
6065 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
6066 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
6067 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
6070 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6071 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
6072 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
6073 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
6074 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6075 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
6076 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
6077 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
6078 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6080 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6081 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6082 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6085 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6086 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6087 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6089 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6090 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
6091 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
6092 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
6093 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
6095 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6096 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6097 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6099 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
6100 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
6101 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
6102 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6104 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6105 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6106 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6107 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6110 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6111 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6112 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6113 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6114 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6116 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6117 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6118 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6121 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6122 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6123 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6125 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6126 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6127 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6128 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6129 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6130 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6132 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6133 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6134 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
6135 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
6136 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
6137 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6138 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6139 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6140 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6141 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6143 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6144 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6145 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6146 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6149 Changes in version 0.4.2.1-alpha - 2019-09-17
6150 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.2.x series. It adds new
6151 defenses for denial-of-service attacks against onion services. It also
6152 includes numerous kinds of bugfixes and refactoring to help improve
6153 Tor's stability and ease of development.
6155 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
6156 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
6157 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
6158 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
6159 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
6160 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
6163 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
6164 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6165 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
6166 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
6167 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
6168 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
6171 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
6172 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
6173 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
6174 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
6175 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6176 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
6177 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
6178 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
6179 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6181 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
6182 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
6183 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
6184 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
6185 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
6186 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
6187 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
6188 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
6189 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
6190 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
6191 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
6192 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
6193 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
6194 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
6195 files. Closes ticket 31175.
6197 o Minor features (build system):
6198 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
6199 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
6200 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
6202 o Minor features (compilation):
6203 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
6204 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
6205 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
6207 o Minor features (configuration):
6208 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
6209 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
6210 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
6211 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
6213 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6214 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
6215 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
6216 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
6218 o Minor features (debugging):
6219 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
6220 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
6221 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
6222 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
6224 o Minor features (git hooks):
6225 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
6226 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
6227 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
6228 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
6229 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
6231 o Minor features (git scripts):
6232 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
6233 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
6234 push. Closes ticket 31314.
6235 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
6236 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
6237 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
6238 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
6239 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
6240 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
6241 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
6242 Closes ticket 31314.
6243 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
6244 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
6245 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
6246 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
6247 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
6248 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
6249 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
6250 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
6251 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
6253 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
6254 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
6255 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
6258 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
6259 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
6260 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
6262 o Minor features (onion service v3):
6263 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
6264 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
6266 o Minor features (onion service):
6267 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
6268 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
6269 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
6270 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
6272 o Minor features (stem tests):
6273 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6274 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6277 o Minor features (testing):
6278 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
6279 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
6280 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
6281 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
6282 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
6283 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
6284 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
6285 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
6286 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
6287 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
6288 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
6290 o Minor features (token bucket):
6291 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
6292 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
6294 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
6295 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
6296 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
6297 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6298 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
6299 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
6300 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
6301 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
6304 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
6305 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6306 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6308 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
6309 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
6310 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
6311 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
6312 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
6313 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
6315 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6316 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
6317 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
6318 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
6319 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
6321 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6322 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6323 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6325 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
6326 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
6327 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
6328 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
6330 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
6331 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
6332 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
6333 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
6334 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
6335 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
6336 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
6337 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
6338 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
6339 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6341 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
6342 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
6343 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
6346 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
6347 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
6348 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6350 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
6351 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6352 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6353 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6354 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6355 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6356 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6357 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
6358 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
6359 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
6362 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
6363 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6364 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6365 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6368 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
6369 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
6370 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
6371 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6373 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
6374 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
6375 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
6376 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6377 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
6378 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6379 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
6380 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
6381 Closes ticket 31678.
6383 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
6384 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6385 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6386 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6387 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6389 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
6390 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
6391 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
6392 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
6393 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6394 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
6395 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
6396 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
6397 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
6400 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6401 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6402 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6404 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
6405 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
6406 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
6408 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
6409 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
6410 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
6413 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
6414 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
6415 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
6416 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
6417 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
6418 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
6420 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
6421 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
6422 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
6423 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
6426 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
6427 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
6428 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
6429 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
6430 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6432 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6433 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
6434 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
6435 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
6436 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
6437 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6439 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
6440 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
6441 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
6442 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6444 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
6445 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6446 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6447 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
6448 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6450 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
6451 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
6452 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
6453 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6455 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
6456 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
6457 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
6458 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
6459 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6461 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
6462 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
6463 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
6464 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
6465 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
6468 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6469 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
6470 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
6473 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
6474 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6475 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6476 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6477 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6478 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6480 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
6481 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6482 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
6483 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
6484 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
6485 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6486 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6487 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6488 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6489 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6492 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
6493 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
6494 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
6495 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
6496 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6497 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6498 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6501 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
6502 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
6503 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
6504 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
6505 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
6506 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
6508 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
6512 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
6513 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
6514 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
6515 Closes ticket 30967.
6517 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
6518 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
6519 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
6520 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
6521 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
6522 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
6523 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
6524 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
6525 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
6526 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
6527 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
6528 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
6529 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
6530 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
6531 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
6532 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
6534 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
6535 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
6536 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
6537 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
6538 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
6539 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
6540 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
6541 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
6542 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
6543 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
6545 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
6546 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
6547 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
6549 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
6550 Closes ticket 30806.
6551 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
6552 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
6555 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
6556 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
6557 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
6559 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
6560 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
6561 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
6564 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
6565 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
6566 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
6567 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
6568 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
6569 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
6570 bugfixes on earlier versions.
6572 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
6573 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
6574 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
6575 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
6577 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
6578 since 0.4.0.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
6580 o Directory authority changes:
6581 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6584 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
6585 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to
6586 protocol warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID
6587 fields to help with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
6589 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding negotiation):
6590 - Bump the circuit padding protocol version to explicitly signify
6591 that the HS setup machine support is finalized in 0.4.1.x-stable.
6592 This also means that 0.4.1.x-alpha clients will not negotiate
6593 padding with 0.4.1.x-stable relays, and 0.4.1.x-stable clients
6594 will not negotiate padding with 0.4.1.x-alpha relays (or 0.4.0.x
6595 relays). Fixes bug 31356; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6597 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
6598 - Ignore non-padding cells on padding circuits. This addresses
6599 various warning messages from subsystems that were not expecting
6600 padding circuits. Fixes bug 30942; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6602 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
6603 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6604 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6605 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6606 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6608 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
6609 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
6610 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
6611 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
6612 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
6613 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
6615 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
6616 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6617 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
6620 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6621 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6622 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6624 o Minor bugfixes (distribution):
6625 - Do not ship any temporary files found in the
6626 scripts/maint/practracker directory. Fixes bug 31311; bugfix
6629 o Testing (continuous integration):
6630 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6631 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6632 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6636 Changes in version 0.4.1.4-rc - 2019-07-25
6637 Tor 0.4.1.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous versions of Tor, and
6638 updates to a new list of fallback directories. If no new bugs are
6639 found, the next release in the 0.4.1.x serious should be stable.
6641 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
6642 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6643 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6644 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6645 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6646 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6648 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6649 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6650 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6652 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
6653 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6654 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6655 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6656 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6658 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
6659 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
6660 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
6662 - Add two NULL checks in unreachable places to silence Coverity (CID
6663 144729 and 1447291) and better future-proof ourselves. Fixes bug
6664 31024; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6666 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
6667 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6668 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6669 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6671 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6672 - Fix a conflict between the flag used for messaging-domain log
6673 messages, and the LD_NO_MOCK testing flag. Fixes bug 31080; bugfix
6676 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
6677 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
6678 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
6681 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6682 - Remove some dead code from circpad_machine_remove_token() to fix
6683 some Coverity warnings (CID 1447298). Fixes bug 31027; bugfix
6687 Changes in version 0.4.1.3-alpha - 2019-06-25
6688 Tor 0.4.1.3-alpha resolves numerous bugs left over from the previous
6689 alpha, most of them from earlier release series.
6691 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability):
6692 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6693 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6694 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6695 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6698 o Minor features (geoip):
6699 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6700 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
6702 o Minor features (logging):
6703 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
6704 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
6705 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
6706 Closes ticket 30686.
6708 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
6709 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6710 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6712 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
6713 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6714 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6715 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6716 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6717 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6718 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6720 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
6721 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6722 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6723 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6725 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
6726 - When running as a bridge with pluggable transports, always publish
6727 pluggable transport information in our extrainfo descriptor, even
6728 if ExtraInfoStatistics is 0. This information is needed by
6729 BridgeDB. Fixes bug 30956; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6732 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
6733 Closes ticket 30630.
6736 Changes in version 0.4.1.2-alpha - 2019-06-06
6737 Tor 0.4.1.2-alpha resolves numerous bugs--some of them from the
6738 previous alpha, and some much older. It also contains minor testing
6739 improvements, and an improvement to the security of our authenticated
6740 SENDME implementation.
6742 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
6743 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6744 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6745 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6746 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6747 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6748 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6749 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6750 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6751 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6752 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6754 o Major bugfixes (flow control, SENDME):
6755 - Decrement the stream-level package window after packaging a cell.
6756 Previously, it was done inside a log_debug() call, meaning that if
6757 debug logs were not enabled, the decrement would never happen, and
6758 thus the window would be out of sync with the other end point.
6759 Fixes bug 30628; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6761 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
6762 - Properly clean up the introduction point map and associated state
6763 when circuits change purpose from onion service circuits to
6764 pathbias, measurement, or other circuit types. This may fix some
6765 instances of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6768 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
6769 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
6770 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
6771 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
6772 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
6773 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
6776 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6777 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
6778 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
6781 o Minor features (maintenance):
6782 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
6783 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
6784 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
6786 o Minor features (testing):
6787 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
6788 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
6789 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
6790 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
6792 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
6793 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
6794 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
6796 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
6797 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6798 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6799 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6801 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
6802 - POSTDESCRIPTOR requests should work again. Previously, they were
6803 broken if a "purpose=" flag was specified. Fixes bug 30580; bugfix
6805 - Repair the HSFETCH command so that it works again. Previously, it
6806 expected a body when it shouldn't have. Fixes bug 30646; bugfix
6809 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
6810 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
6811 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
6814 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
6815 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6816 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6819 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
6820 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
6821 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
6822 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
6824 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
6825 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6826 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6827 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6830 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6831 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6832 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6833 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6834 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6835 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6838 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown, libevent, memory safety):
6839 - Avoid use-after-free bugs when shutting down, by making sure that
6840 we shut down libevent only after shutting down all of its users.
6841 We believe these are harmless in practice, since they only occur
6842 on the shutdown path, and do not involve any attacker-controlled
6843 data. Fixes bug 30629; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6845 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
6846 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
6847 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
6848 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
6851 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6852 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6853 Resolves issue 29702.
6856 Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-22
6857 This is the first alpha in the 0.4.1.x series. It introduces
6858 lightweight circuit padding to make some onion-service circuits harder
6859 to distinguish, includes a new "authenticated SENDME" feature to make
6860 certain denial-of-service attacks more difficult, and improves
6861 performance in several areas.
6863 o Major features (circuit padding):
6864 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
6865 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
6866 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
6867 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
6868 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
6869 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
6870 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
6871 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
6872 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
6874 o Major features (code organization):
6875 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
6876 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
6877 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
6878 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
6881 o Major features (controller protocol):
6882 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
6883 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
6884 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
6885 Closes ticket 30091.
6887 o Major features (flow control):
6888 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
6889 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
6890 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
6891 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
6892 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
6893 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
6894 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
6896 o Major features (performance):
6897 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
6898 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
6899 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
6901 o Major features (performance, RNG):
6902 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
6903 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
6904 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
6905 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
6906 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
6907 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
6908 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
6909 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
6911 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
6912 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6913 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6914 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6915 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6917 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6918 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6919 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6920 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6923 o Minor features (circuit padding):
6924 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
6926 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
6927 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
6928 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
6929 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
6930 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6931 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
6932 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
6934 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
6935 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6936 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6938 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6939 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6940 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6942 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6944 o Minor features (controller):
6945 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
6946 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
6947 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6949 o Minor features (debugging):
6950 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
6951 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
6952 can use format strings to include information for trouble
6953 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
6955 o Minor features (defense in depth):
6956 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
6957 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
6958 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
6959 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
6960 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
6961 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
6962 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
6963 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
6964 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
6966 o Minor features (developer tools):
6967 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
6968 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
6969 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
6970 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
6971 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
6973 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
6974 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
6976 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
6977 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
6979 o Minor features (geoip):
6980 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6981 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
6983 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
6984 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
6985 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
6987 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
6988 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
6989 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
6990 addresses. Implements 26992.
6992 o Minor features (modularity):
6993 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
6994 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
6996 o Minor features (performance):
6997 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
6998 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
6999 Closes ticket 28837.
7001 o Minor features (testing):
7002 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
7003 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
7004 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
7005 Implements ticket 29732.
7006 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
7007 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
7009 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
7010 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
7012 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
7013 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
7014 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
7015 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
7016 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
7017 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7019 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
7020 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
7021 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
7022 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7024 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
7025 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
7026 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7027 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
7028 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
7029 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
7030 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7031 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
7032 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
7033 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7034 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
7035 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7036 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
7037 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
7038 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7039 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
7040 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
7041 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7043 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
7044 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
7045 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
7046 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7048 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
7049 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
7050 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
7051 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
7052 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
7054 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, ipv6):
7055 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
7056 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7057 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7059 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7060 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
7061 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7062 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
7063 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
7064 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
7066 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
7067 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
7069 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7070 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
7071 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
7072 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
7073 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
7074 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
7075 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
7078 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
7079 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
7080 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
7083 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7084 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
7085 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
7086 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7087 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
7088 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
7089 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
7090 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
7092 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
7093 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
7094 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7095 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
7096 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
7097 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
7098 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7100 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
7101 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
7102 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
7103 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
7104 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
7105 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7107 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
7108 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
7109 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
7110 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
7111 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7113 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7114 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
7115 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7117 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
7118 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
7119 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
7122 o Minor bugfixes (python):
7123 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
7124 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
7125 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
7127 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7128 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
7129 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
7130 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
7131 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7133 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
7134 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
7135 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
7136 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
7137 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7139 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7140 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
7141 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
7142 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7143 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
7144 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7145 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
7146 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7147 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
7148 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
7149 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
7150 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
7151 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7153 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
7154 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
7155 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
7156 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
7157 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7159 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7160 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
7161 port. Implements ticket 30007.
7162 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
7163 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
7164 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
7165 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
7166 string to directory connection with or without compression.
7167 Resolves issue 28816.
7168 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
7169 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
7170 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
7171 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
7172 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
7173 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
7174 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
7175 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
7176 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
7177 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
7178 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
7179 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
7180 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
7181 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
7182 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
7183 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
7184 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7185 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
7186 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7187 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
7188 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
7189 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
7190 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
7191 Closes ticket 29894.
7192 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
7193 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
7194 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
7195 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
7198 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
7199 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
7203 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
7204 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
7205 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
7206 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
7209 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
7210 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
7211 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
7212 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
7213 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
7214 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
7215 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
7216 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
7217 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
7218 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
7219 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
7222 o Testing (chutney):
7223 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
7224 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
7225 Closes ticket 27251.
7228 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
7229 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
7230 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
7231 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
7232 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
7233 long-term maintainability.
7235 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
7236 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
7237 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
7238 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
7240 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
7241 since 0.3.5.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
7243 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7244 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
7245 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
7246 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
7248 o Minor features (diagnostic):
7249 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
7250 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
7253 o Minor features (testing):
7254 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
7255 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
7258 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
7259 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
7260 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7262 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
7263 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
7264 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
7265 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7267 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7268 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
7269 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
7271 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
7272 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
7273 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7276 Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
7277 Tor 0.4.0.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series; it fixes
7278 several bugs from earlier versions, including some that had affected
7279 stability, and one that prevented relays from working with NSS.
7281 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
7282 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
7283 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
7284 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
7285 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
7286 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7288 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
7289 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
7290 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
7291 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
7292 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
7294 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
7295 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
7296 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
7299 o Minor features (circuit padding):
7300 - Stop warning about undefined behavior in the probability
7301 distribution tests. Float division by zero may technically be
7302 undefined behavior in C, but it's well defined in IEEE 754.
7303 Partial backport of 29298. Closes ticket 29527; bugfix
7306 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7307 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
7308 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
7311 o Minor features (dormant mode):
7312 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
7313 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
7314 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
7315 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
7316 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
7317 background. Closes ticket 29357.
7319 o Minor features (geoip):
7320 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7321 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
7323 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
7324 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
7325 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
7326 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
7328 o Minor bugfixes (security):
7329 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
7330 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
7331 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
7332 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
7333 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
7334 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
7335 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
7336 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
7338 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
7339 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
7340 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
7341 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
7343 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
7344 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
7345 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
7346 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
7347 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
7349 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
7350 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
7351 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7353 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap reporting):
7354 - During bootstrap reporting, correctly distinguish pluggable
7355 transports from plain proxies. Fixes bug 28925; bugfix
7358 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7359 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
7360 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
7363 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding testing):
7364 - Minor tweaks to avoid rare test failures related to timers and
7365 monotonic time. Fixes bug 29500; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7367 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
7368 - Actually include the bandwidth-file-digest line in directory
7369 authority votes. Fixes bug 29959; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7371 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7372 - On Windows, when errors cause us to reload a consensus from disk,
7373 tell the user that we are retrying at log level "notice".
7374 Previously we only logged this information at "info", which was
7375 confusing because the errors themselves were logged at "warning".
7376 Improves previous fix for 28614. Fixes bug 30004; bugfix
7379 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7380 - Restore old behavior when it comes to discovering the path of a
7381 given Pluggable Transport executable file. A change in
7382 0.4.0.1-alpha had broken this behavior on paths containing a
7383 space. Fixes bug 29874; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7385 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7386 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
7387 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
7388 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7389 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
7390 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
7393 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
7394 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
7395 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
7396 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
7397 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
7398 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
7399 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
7400 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
7402 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7403 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
7404 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
7405 Resolves issue 28816.
7406 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
7407 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
7410 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
7411 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
7414 Changes in version 0.4.0.3-alpha - 2019-03-22
7415 Tor 0.4.0.3-alpha is the third in its series; it fixes several small
7416 bugs from earlier versions.
7418 o Minor features (address selection):
7419 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
7420 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
7421 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
7422 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
7423 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
7424 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
7425 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7427 o Minor features (geoip):
7428 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 4 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7429 Country database. Closes ticket 29666.
7431 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding):
7432 - Inspect the circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
7433 avoid sending padding when too much data is queued. Fixes bug
7434 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7436 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7437 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
7438 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
7439 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
7440 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7441 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
7442 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
7443 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
7444 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7445 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
7446 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7448 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
7449 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
7450 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
7451 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7453 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing):
7454 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
7455 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7457 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7458 - Fix an assertion failure crash bug when a pluggable transport is
7459 terminated during the bootstrap phase. Fixes bug 29562; bugfix
7462 o Minor bugfixes (Rust, protover):
7463 - Add a missing "Padding" value to the Rust implementation of
7464 protover. Fixes bug 29631; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7466 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
7467 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
7468 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
7469 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
7470 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
7471 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
7472 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
7474 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
7475 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
7476 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
7479 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7480 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
7481 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
7482 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
7483 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
7484 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
7485 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
7486 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7487 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
7488 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7490 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
7491 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
7492 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
7493 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
7494 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
7495 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7498 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
7499 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
7500 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
7503 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
7504 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
7505 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7507 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7508 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7509 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7510 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7511 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7512 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7513 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7514 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7516 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7517 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
7518 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
7519 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
7520 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7522 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7523 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
7524 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
7525 Patches from "Mangix".
7527 o Minor features (geoip):
7528 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7529 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
7531 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7532 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
7535 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7536 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
7537 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
7538 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
7539 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
7540 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
7542 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7543 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
7544 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
7545 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
7548 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7549 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7550 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7551 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7553 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7554 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
7555 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
7558 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7559 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
7560 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
7561 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7563 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7564 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
7565 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
7566 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
7568 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7569 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
7570 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
7571 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
7572 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
7573 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
7575 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7576 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
7577 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
7578 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
7579 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7581 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7582 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
7583 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
7584 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
7585 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7587 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7588 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
7589 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
7591 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
7592 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
7593 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
7595 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7596 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7597 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7598 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7600 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7601 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
7602 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
7604 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7605 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
7606 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7607 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
7608 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
7611 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7612 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
7613 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
7614 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
7615 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7618 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
7619 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
7620 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
7621 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
7622 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7624 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7625 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7626 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7627 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7628 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7629 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7630 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7631 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7633 o Minor features (geoip):
7634 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7635 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
7637 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7638 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7639 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7640 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7642 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7643 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7644 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7645 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7646 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7649 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
7650 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
7651 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
7652 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7654 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
7655 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
7656 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
7657 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
7659 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7660 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7661 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7662 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7663 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7664 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7665 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7666 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7668 o Minor features (geoip):
7669 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7670 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
7672 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7673 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7674 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7675 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7677 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7678 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7679 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7680 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7681 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7684 Changes in version 0.4.0.2-alpha - 2019-02-21
7685 Tor 0.4.0.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series; it fixes several
7686 bugs from earlier versions, including several that had broken
7687 backward compatibility.
7689 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
7690 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
7691 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7693 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7694 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7695 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7696 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7697 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7698 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7699 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7700 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7702 o Major bugfixes (networking):
7703 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
7704 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
7705 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
7706 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7708 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
7709 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
7710 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
7711 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
7712 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
7713 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
7714 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7716 o Minor features (compilation):
7717 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
7718 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
7719 Patches from "Mangix".
7721 o Minor features (developer tooling):
7722 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
7723 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
7724 release. Closes ticket 27761.
7725 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
7726 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
7727 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
7730 o Minor features (directory authority):
7731 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
7732 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
7733 Closes ticket 26698.
7735 o Minor features (geoip):
7736 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7737 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
7739 o Minor features (testing):
7740 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
7743 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
7744 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7745 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7746 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7748 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7749 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
7750 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7751 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
7752 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7754 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7755 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
7756 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
7757 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
7759 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
7760 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
7761 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
7763 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7764 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
7765 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7766 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
7767 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
7768 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
7769 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7771 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
7772 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
7773 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
7774 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
7775 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7777 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7778 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
7779 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
7781 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
7782 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
7783 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
7785 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7786 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7787 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7788 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7790 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
7791 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
7792 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
7793 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
7794 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
7797 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
7798 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
7799 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7800 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
7801 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
7802 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
7803 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7804 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
7805 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7806 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
7807 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
7811 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
7812 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
7813 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
7816 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
7819 Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
7820 Tor 0.4.0.1-alpha is the first release in the new 0.4.0.x series. It
7821 introduces improved features for power and bandwidth conservation,
7822 more accurate reporting of bootstrap progress for user interfaces, and
7823 an experimental backend for an exciting new adaptive padding feature.
7824 There is also the usual assortment of bugfixes and minor features, all
7827 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
7828 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
7829 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
7830 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
7831 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
7832 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
7834 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
7835 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
7837 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
7838 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
7841 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
7842 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
7843 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
7844 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
7845 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
7846 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
7847 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
7848 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
7849 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
7852 o Major features (circuit padding):
7853 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
7854 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
7855 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
7856 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
7857 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
7858 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
7859 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
7860 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
7863 o Major features (refactoring):
7864 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
7865 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
7866 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
7867 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
7870 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
7871 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
7872 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
7873 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
7874 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
7877 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7878 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
7881 o Minor features (controller):
7882 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
7883 Implements ticket 28843.
7885 o Minor features (developer tooling):
7886 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
7887 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
7888 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
7890 o Minor features (directory authority):
7891 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
7892 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
7893 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
7894 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
7897 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
7898 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
7899 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
7900 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
7901 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
7902 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
7903 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
7905 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
7906 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
7907 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
7909 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
7910 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
7911 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
7912 Closes ticket 28518.
7914 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
7915 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
7916 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
7917 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
7919 o Minor features (IPv6):
7920 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
7921 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
7922 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
7923 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
7924 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
7925 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7926 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
7927 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
7928 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
7929 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7931 o Minor features (log messages):
7932 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
7933 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
7936 o Minor features (memory usage):
7937 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
7938 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
7939 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
7940 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
7941 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
7943 o Minor features (parsing):
7944 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
7945 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
7946 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
7948 o Minor features (performance):
7949 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
7950 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
7951 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
7952 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
7954 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
7955 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
7956 Closes ticket 28852.
7957 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
7958 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
7959 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
7960 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
7961 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
7962 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
7964 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
7965 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
7966 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
7967 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
7968 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
7970 o Minor features (process management):
7971 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
7972 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
7973 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
7974 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
7975 module. Closes ticket 28847.
7977 o Minor features (relay):
7978 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
7979 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
7980 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
7982 o Minor features (required protocols):
7983 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
7984 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
7985 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
7986 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
7987 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
7988 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
7989 297; closes ticket 27735.
7991 o Minor features (testing):
7992 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
7993 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
7995 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
7996 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
7997 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
7998 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
7999 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
8002 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8003 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
8004 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
8005 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8007 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
8008 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
8009 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
8011 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
8012 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
8013 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
8014 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8016 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
8017 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
8018 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
8019 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
8020 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
8022 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
8023 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
8024 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
8025 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
8026 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
8027 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
8028 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8030 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
8031 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
8032 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
8033 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
8036 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8037 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
8038 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
8039 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
8040 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
8041 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
8043 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
8044 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
8045 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
8046 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8048 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
8049 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
8050 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
8051 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
8052 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
8053 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
8055 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
8056 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
8057 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
8058 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8060 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
8061 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
8062 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
8063 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
8064 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
8066 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
8067 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
8068 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
8069 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
8070 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8072 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
8073 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
8074 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
8075 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
8076 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8078 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8079 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
8080 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
8081 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
8083 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
8084 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
8085 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
8086 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
8087 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
8088 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
8089 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
8090 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
8094 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
8095 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
8096 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
8097 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
8099 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
8102 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
8103 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
8104 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
8105 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
8106 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
8107 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
8108 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
8111 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
8113 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
8114 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
8116 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
8117 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
8118 code from client and service into one function. Closes
8121 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
8122 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
8124 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
8125 Resolves ticket 28006.
8126 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
8127 Resolves ticket 28012.
8128 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
8129 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
8130 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
8131 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
8135 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
8136 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
8137 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
8138 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
8139 to this version, or to a later series.
8141 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
8142 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
8143 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
8144 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
8145 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
8146 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
8148 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8149 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8150 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8151 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8152 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8155 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8156 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
8157 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
8158 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8160 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8161 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
8162 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
8163 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
8164 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
8165 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
8166 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
8167 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
8169 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8170 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
8171 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
8172 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
8174 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8175 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8176 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8177 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8178 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8180 o Minor features (geoip):
8181 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8182 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
8184 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8185 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8186 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8187 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8188 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8189 Closes ticket 28973.
8191 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8192 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8193 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8194 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8196 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8197 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
8198 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
8201 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8202 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
8203 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
8205 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8206 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8207 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8208 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8210 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8211 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
8212 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
8213 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8215 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8216 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8217 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8218 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8219 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8220 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8223 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8224 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
8225 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
8228 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8229 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
8230 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
8231 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
8232 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8234 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8235 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
8236 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
8237 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
8238 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8240 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8241 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8242 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8243 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8244 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8245 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8247 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
8248 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
8249 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
8252 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8253 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8254 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8256 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8257 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
8258 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8260 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8261 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
8262 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
8265 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8266 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
8267 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
8268 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
8269 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
8270 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8271 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
8272 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8274 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8275 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
8276 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
8277 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8279 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8280 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
8281 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8282 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
8283 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
8284 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8285 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
8286 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
8287 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
8288 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
8290 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8291 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
8292 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
8293 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
8294 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
8295 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8297 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8298 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
8299 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
8300 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
8301 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8303 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8304 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8305 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8308 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
8309 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
8310 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
8311 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
8314 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
8315 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
8316 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
8319 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8320 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8321 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8322 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8323 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8326 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8327 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
8328 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
8329 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
8330 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
8331 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
8332 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
8334 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8335 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
8336 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
8339 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8340 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
8341 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
8342 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
8343 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
8346 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8347 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8348 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8349 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8350 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8352 o Minor features (geoip):
8353 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8354 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
8356 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8357 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8358 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8359 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8360 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8361 Closes ticket 28973.
8363 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8364 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8365 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8366 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8368 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8369 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
8370 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
8371 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
8372 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
8375 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8376 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
8377 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
8378 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
8380 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
8381 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
8382 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8384 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8385 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
8386 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
8387 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
8389 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8390 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8391 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8392 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8393 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8394 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8397 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8398 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8399 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8401 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8402 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
8403 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
8404 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
8405 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8407 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8408 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8409 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8410 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8411 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8412 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8414 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8415 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8416 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8417 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8419 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8420 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8421 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8424 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
8425 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
8426 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
8427 affecting directory caches.
8429 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
8430 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
8431 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
8432 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
8433 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
8434 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
8435 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
8436 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
8438 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
8439 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
8440 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
8441 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
8442 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
8443 so it will recognize them.
8445 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
8446 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
8447 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
8448 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
8449 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
8450 with the latest stable release.)
8452 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
8453 since 0.3.4.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
8455 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory):
8456 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
8457 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
8458 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
8459 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
8460 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
8461 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
8463 o Minor features (compilation):
8464 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
8465 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
8467 o Minor features (geoip):
8468 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8469 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
8471 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
8472 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8473 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8474 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8475 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8476 Closes ticket 28973.
8478 o Minor features (performance):
8479 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
8480 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
8481 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
8482 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
8483 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
8484 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
8485 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
8486 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
8487 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
8488 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
8490 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8491 - Fix compilation for Android by adding a missing header to
8492 freespace.c. Fixes bug 28974; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8494 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8495 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
8496 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
8497 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
8498 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
8500 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8501 - Make sure that test_rebind.py actually obeys its timeout, even
8502 when it receives a large number of log messages. Fixes bug 28883;
8503 bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
8504 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
8505 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
8506 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8508 o Minor bugfixes (windows services):
8509 - Make Tor start correctly as an NT service again: previously it was
8510 broken by refactoring. Fixes bug 28612; bugfix on 0.3.5.3-alpha.
8512 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8513 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
8514 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
8518 Changes in version 0.3.5.6-rc - 2018-12-18
8519 Tor 0.3.5.6-rc fixes numerous small bugs in earlier versions of Tor.
8520 It is the first release candidate in the 0.3.5.x series; if no further
8521 huge bugs are found, our next release may be the stable 0.3.5.x.
8523 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
8524 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
8525 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
8528 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
8529 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8530 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8531 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8532 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8534 o Minor features (geoip):
8535 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8536 Country database. Closes ticket 28744.
8538 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8539 - Add missing dependency on libgdi32.dll for tor-print-ed-signing-
8540 cert.exe on Windows. Fixes bug 28485; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8542 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
8543 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
8544 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
8545 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
8547 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
8548 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8549 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8550 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8551 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8552 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8554 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, boostrap):
8555 - Add missing resets of bootstrap tracking state when shutting down
8556 (regression caused by ticket 27169). Fixes bug 28524; bugfix
8559 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8560 - Use a separate DataDirectory for the test_rebind script.
8561 Previously, this script would run using the default DataDirectory,
8562 and sometimes fail. Fixes bug 28562; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8563 Patch from Taylor R Campbell.
8564 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8565 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8567 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
8568 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
8569 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
8570 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
8571 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
8572 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
8573 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
8574 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
8576 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
8577 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
8578 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
8579 reported by Keifer Bly.
8582 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
8583 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
8585 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
8586 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
8587 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
8588 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
8589 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
8590 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
8591 Closes ticket 19566.
8593 o Documentation (onion services):
8594 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
8595 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
8596 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
8597 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
8598 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
8599 process. Closes ticket 28275.
8602 Changes in version 0.3.5.5-alpha - 2018-11-16
8603 Tor 0.3.5.5-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier releases,
8604 including several that we hope to backport to older release series in
8607 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
8608 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8609 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8610 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8611 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8614 o Minor features (geoip):
8615 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8616 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
8618 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8619 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8620 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8621 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8623 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
8624 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
8625 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
8626 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
8627 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
8630 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
8631 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
8632 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
8633 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
8635 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
8636 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
8637 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8639 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
8640 - Make Doxygen work again after the code movement in the 0.3.5
8641 source tree. Fixes bug 28435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8643 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8644 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
8645 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
8648 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8649 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
8650 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
8653 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
8654 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8655 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8657 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8658 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
8659 introduction circuits on an NACK. This lets the client decide
8660 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
8661 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
8662 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
8663 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
8664 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
8665 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
8666 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8669 Changes in version 0.3.5.4-alpha - 2018-11-08
8670 Tor 0.3.5.4-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier versions and
8671 improves our continuous integration support. It continues our attempts
8672 to stabilize this alpha branch and build it into a foundation for an
8673 acceptable long-term-support release.
8675 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
8676 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
8677 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
8678 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
8679 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
8680 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8682 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
8683 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
8684 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
8685 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
8686 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8688 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8689 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
8691 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
8692 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
8694 o Minor features (Windows, continuous integration):
8695 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
8696 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
8698 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, also in 0.3.4.9):
8699 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
8700 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
8703 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8704 - Fix a pair of missing headers on OpenBSD. Fixes bug 28303; bugfix
8705 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8707 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenSolaris):
8708 - Fix compilation on OpenSolaris and its descendants by adding a
8709 missing include to compat_pthreads.c. Fixes bug 27963; bugfix
8712 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
8713 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
8714 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
8717 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
8718 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
8719 with a different relay, instead of a BUG() warning with a
8720 backtrace. Fixes bug 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8722 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
8723 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
8724 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
8725 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
8728 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
8729 - Fix an assert() when adding a client authorization for the first
8730 time and then sending a HUP signal to the service. Before that,
8731 Tor would stop abruptly. Fixes bug 27995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8733 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8734 - Unless we have explicitly set HiddenServiceVersion, detect the
8735 onion service version and then look for invalid options.
8736 Previously, we did the reverse, but that broke existing configs
8737 which were pointed to a v2 service and had options like
8738 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient set. Fixes bug 28127; bugfix on
8739 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8741 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8742 - Make the OPE code (which is used for v3 onion services) run
8743 correctly on big-endian platforms. Fixes bug 28115; bugfix
8746 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
8747 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
8750 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
8751 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
8752 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
8753 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
8754 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8756 o Minor bugfixes (rust, also in 0.3.4.9):
8757 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
8758 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8759 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
8760 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
8761 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8763 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
8764 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
8765 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
8766 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
8767 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
8769 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8770 - Avoid hangs and race conditions in test_rebind.py. Fixes bug
8771 27968; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8773 o Minor bugfixes (testing, also in 0.3.4.9):
8774 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
8775 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
8776 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
8777 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8779 o Documentation (onion service manpage):
8780 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
8781 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
8784 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
8785 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
8786 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
8787 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
8788 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
8790 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8791 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
8792 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8794 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8795 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
8796 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
8797 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
8798 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8800 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8801 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
8802 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
8803 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
8804 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
8807 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8808 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
8809 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
8810 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8812 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8813 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
8814 Implements ticket 27252.
8815 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
8816 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
8817 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
8818 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
8819 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
8820 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
8821 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
8823 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8824 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
8825 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
8826 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
8828 o Minor features (geoip):
8829 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8830 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
8832 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8833 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
8834 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
8835 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
8836 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8838 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
8839 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
8840 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8841 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
8842 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8845 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8846 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
8847 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
8850 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8851 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
8852 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
8853 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
8854 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
8856 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8857 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
8858 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
8860 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8861 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
8862 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8864 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8865 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
8866 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
8867 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8869 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8870 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
8871 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8873 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8874 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
8875 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
8878 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8879 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
8880 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8882 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8883 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
8884 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
8887 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8888 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
8889 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
8890 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
8891 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8893 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8894 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
8895 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
8896 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
8897 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
8898 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8900 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8901 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
8902 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
8905 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8906 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
8907 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
8908 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
8909 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
8910 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8911 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
8912 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8914 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8915 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
8916 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
8917 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8919 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8920 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
8921 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
8922 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
8923 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
8925 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8926 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
8927 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8928 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
8929 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
8930 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8932 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8933 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
8934 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
8935 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
8936 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
8937 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8939 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8940 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
8941 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
8942 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
8945 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8946 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
8947 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
8948 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
8949 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8952 Changes in version 0.3.5.3-alpha - 2018-10-17
8953 Tor 0.3.5.3-alpha fixes several bugs, mostly from previous 0.3.5.x
8954 versions. One important fix for relays addresses a problem with rate-
8955 limiting code from back in 0.3.4.x: If the fix works out, we'll be
8956 backporting it soon. This release is still an alpha, but we hope it's
8957 getting closer and closer to stability.
8959 o Major features (onion services):
8960 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
8961 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
8962 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
8963 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
8964 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
8966 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
8967 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
8968 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8970 o Major bugfixes (initialization, crash):
8971 - Fix an assertion crash that would stop Tor from starting up if it
8972 tried to activate a periodic event too early. Fixes bug 27861;
8973 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8975 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap):
8976 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
8977 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
8978 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
8979 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8981 o Major bugfixes (relay):
8982 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
8983 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
8984 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
8985 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
8988 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8989 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
8990 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
8991 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
8992 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
8993 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
8996 o Minor features (geoip):
8997 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8998 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
9000 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
9001 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
9002 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
9005 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9006 - Compile the ed25519-donna code with a correct declaration of
9007 crypto_strongest_rand(). Previously, we built it with one type,
9008 but linked it against another in the unit tests, which caused
9009 compilation failures with LTO enabled. This could have caused
9010 other undefined behavior in the tests. Fixes bug 27728; bugfix
9013 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, netbsd):
9014 - Add a missing include back into procmon.c. Fixes bug 27990; bugfix
9017 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, appveyor):
9018 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
9019 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
9020 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
9021 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
9023 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
9024 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
9025 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
9026 were the same, the default setting (0) for
9027 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
9028 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
9031 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
9032 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
9033 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9035 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
9036 - In retry_listeners_ports(), make sure that we're removing a member
9037 of old_conns smartlist at most once. Fixes bug 27808; bugfix
9039 - Refrain from attempting socket rebinding when old and new
9040 listeners are in different address families. Fixes bug 27928;
9041 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9043 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9044 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
9045 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
9047 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
9048 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
9049 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
9050 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9051 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
9052 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
9053 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
9054 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
9055 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9057 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
9058 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
9059 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
9062 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9063 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
9064 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
9065 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
9067 - In test_rebind.py, check if the Python version is in the supported
9068 range. Fixes bug 27675; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9070 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9071 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
9072 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
9073 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
9074 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
9075 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
9076 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
9077 Closes ticket 27814.
9078 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
9079 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
9080 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
9081 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
9082 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
9083 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
9086 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
9087 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
9088 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
9089 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
9092 Changes in version 0.3.5.2-alpha - 2018-09-21
9093 Tor 0.3.5.2-alpha fixes several bugs in 0.3.5.1-alpha, including one
9094 that made Tor think it had run out of sockets. Anybody running a relay
9095 or an onion service on 0.3.5.1-alpha should upgrade.
9097 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
9098 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
9099 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
9100 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
9101 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
9102 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
9104 o Major bugfixes (socket accounting):
9105 - In our socket accounting code, count a socket as closed even when
9106 it is closed indirectly by the TLS layer. Previously, we would
9107 count these sockets as still in use, and incorrectly believe that
9108 we had run out of sockets. Fixes bug 27795; bugfix
9111 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
9112 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
9113 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
9114 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
9115 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9117 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
9118 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
9119 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9120 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
9121 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9124 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9125 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
9126 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
9127 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
9128 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9130 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
9131 - Fix an unlikely memory leak when trying to read a private key from
9132 a ridiculously large file. Fixes bug 27764; bugfix on
9133 0.3.5.1-alpha. This is CID 1439488.
9135 o Minor bugfixes (NSS):
9136 - Correctly detect failure to open a dummy TCP socket when stealing
9137 ownership of an fd from the NSS layer. Fixes bug 27782; bugfix
9140 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
9141 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
9142 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
9143 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9145 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9146 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
9147 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
9148 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9150 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9151 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
9152 Closes ticket 27799.
9155 Changes in version 0.3.5.1-alpha - 2018-09-18
9156 Tor 0.3.5.1-alpha is the first release of the 0.3.5.x series. It adds
9157 client authorization for modern (v3) onion services, improves
9158 bootstrap reporting, begins reorganizing Tor's codebase, adds optional
9159 support for NSS in place of OpenSSL, and much more.
9161 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
9162 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
9163 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
9164 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
9165 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
9166 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
9168 o Major features (relay, UI change):
9169 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
9170 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
9171 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
9172 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
9173 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9174 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
9175 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
9177 o Major features (bootstrap):
9178 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
9179 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
9180 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
9181 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
9183 o Major features (new code layout):
9184 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
9185 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
9186 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
9187 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
9188 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
9189 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
9190 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
9192 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
9193 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
9194 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
9196 o Major features (onion services v3):
9197 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
9198 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
9199 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
9200 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
9201 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
9202 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
9203 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
9204 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
9205 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
9206 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
9207 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
9208 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
9209 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
9211 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
9212 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
9213 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
9214 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
9215 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
9216 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
9217 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
9219 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
9220 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
9221 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
9222 (if present), and restart Tor.
9224 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
9225 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
9226 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
9227 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
9230 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
9231 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
9232 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
9233 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9235 o Minor features (admin tools):
9236 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
9237 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
9240 o Minor features (build):
9241 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
9242 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
9243 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
9244 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
9246 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
9247 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
9248 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
9249 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
9250 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
9252 o Minor features (code layout):
9253 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
9254 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
9255 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
9256 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
9259 o Minor features (compilation):
9260 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
9261 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
9262 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
9263 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
9266 o Minor features (config):
9267 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
9270 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9271 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
9272 Implements ticket 27252.
9273 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9274 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9275 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
9276 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
9277 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
9278 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
9279 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
9280 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
9281 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
9283 o Minor features (controller):
9284 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
9285 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
9286 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
9287 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
9288 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
9289 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
9290 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
9291 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
9293 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
9294 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
9295 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
9296 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
9298 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
9299 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
9300 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
9301 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9303 o Minor features (development):
9304 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
9305 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
9307 o Minor features (directory authority):
9308 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
9309 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
9310 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
9311 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
9313 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
9314 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
9317 o Minor features (embedding API):
9318 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
9319 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
9320 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
9321 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
9322 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
9323 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
9326 o Minor features (geoip):
9327 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9328 Country database. Closes ticket 27631.
9330 o Minor features (memory management):
9331 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
9332 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
9335 o Minor features (memory usage):
9336 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
9337 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
9338 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
9340 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
9341 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
9342 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
9344 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
9345 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
9346 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
9347 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
9349 o Minor features (testing):
9350 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
9351 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
9353 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
9354 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
9355 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
9357 o Minor features (UI):
9358 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
9359 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
9360 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
9361 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
9362 Closes ticket 26703.
9364 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
9365 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
9366 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
9367 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
9369 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
9370 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
9371 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
9372 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
9373 - Use time_t for all values in
9374 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
9375 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
9376 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9378 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
9379 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
9380 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
9381 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
9382 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
9385 o Minor bugfixes (client, reachableaddresses):
9386 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
9387 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
9388 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
9389 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
9390 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9392 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
9393 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
9394 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
9395 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
9397 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
9398 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
9399 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
9400 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
9401 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
9403 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
9404 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
9405 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9407 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9408 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
9409 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
9410 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
9411 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
9414 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
9415 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
9416 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9418 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
9419 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
9420 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
9423 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
9424 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
9425 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
9426 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
9427 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9429 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9430 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
9431 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
9432 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
9433 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
9434 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
9435 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
9437 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
9438 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
9439 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
9440 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
9441 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9443 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
9444 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
9445 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9447 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
9448 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
9449 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
9450 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
9453 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9454 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
9455 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
9458 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
9459 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
9460 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
9461 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
9462 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
9464 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
9465 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
9466 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
9467 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
9469 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
9470 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
9471 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
9472 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
9474 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
9475 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
9476 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
9477 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
9478 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
9479 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9480 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9481 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
9482 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
9483 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9485 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protover):
9486 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
9487 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
9488 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
9489 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
9490 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9491 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
9492 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9494 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9495 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
9496 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9497 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
9498 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
9499 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
9500 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
9501 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9502 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
9503 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
9504 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9505 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
9506 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9508 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9509 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
9510 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
9511 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
9512 directory within the top-level src directory.
9513 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
9514 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
9515 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
9516 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
9517 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
9518 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
9519 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
9520 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
9521 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
9522 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
9523 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
9524 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
9525 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
9526 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
9527 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
9528 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
9529 Closes ticket 21349.
9530 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
9531 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
9532 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
9533 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
9534 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
9535 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
9536 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
9538 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
9539 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
9540 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
9543 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
9544 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
9545 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
9546 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
9547 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
9550 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
9551 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
9552 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
9553 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
9554 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
9555 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
9556 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
9557 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
9558 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
9559 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
9560 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
9561 Closes ticket 26367.
9564 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
9565 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
9567 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9568 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9569 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9570 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9572 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9573 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9575 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9576 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9577 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9578 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9580 o Minor features (geoip):
9581 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9582 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9584 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9585 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9586 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9587 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9589 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9590 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9591 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9592 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9593 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9594 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9595 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9596 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9599 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9600 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9601 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9602 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9604 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9605 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9606 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9607 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9609 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9610 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9611 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9612 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9614 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9615 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9616 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9617 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9618 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9620 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9621 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9622 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9625 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9626 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9627 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9628 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9629 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9631 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9632 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9633 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9636 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9637 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9638 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9639 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9641 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9642 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9643 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9645 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9646 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9647 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9650 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9651 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9652 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9653 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9654 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9656 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9657 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9658 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9661 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
9662 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
9664 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9665 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9666 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9667 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9669 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9670 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9672 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9673 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9674 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9675 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9677 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9678 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9681 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9682 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9683 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9684 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9686 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9687 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9688 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9689 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9691 o Minor features (geoip):
9692 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9693 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9695 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9696 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9697 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9698 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9699 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9700 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9701 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9703 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9704 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9705 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9706 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9707 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9708 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9709 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9710 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9713 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9714 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9715 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9716 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9718 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9719 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9720 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9721 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9723 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9724 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9725 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9726 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9727 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9729 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9730 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9731 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9732 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9733 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9735 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9736 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9737 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9740 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9741 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9742 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9743 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9744 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9746 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9747 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
9748 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
9751 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9752 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
9753 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
9756 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9757 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9758 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9761 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9762 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
9764 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
9765 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
9766 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
9767 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9769 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9770 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9771 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9772 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9774 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9775 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9776 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9778 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9779 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
9780 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
9781 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
9782 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9783 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9784 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9787 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
9788 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
9789 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
9790 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
9791 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9793 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9794 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9795 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9796 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9797 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9799 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9800 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9801 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9804 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
9805 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
9807 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9808 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
9809 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
9810 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
9812 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9813 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9814 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9815 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9817 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9818 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
9819 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9821 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9822 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9823 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9824 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9826 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9827 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9830 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9831 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9832 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9833 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9835 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9836 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9837 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9838 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9840 o Minor features (geoip):
9841 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9842 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9844 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9845 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9846 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9847 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9848 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9849 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9850 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9852 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9853 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9854 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9855 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9856 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9857 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9858 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9859 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9862 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9863 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9864 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9865 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9867 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9868 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9869 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9870 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9872 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9873 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9874 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9875 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9876 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9878 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9879 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9880 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9881 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9882 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9884 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9885 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9886 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9889 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9890 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
9891 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
9892 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9894 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9895 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9896 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9897 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9898 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9900 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9901 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
9902 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
9905 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9906 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
9907 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
9910 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9911 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9912 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9915 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9916 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
9917 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
9918 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9920 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9921 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
9922 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
9925 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9926 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
9928 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
9929 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
9930 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
9931 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
9932 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9933 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
9934 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
9936 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
9937 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9938 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
9939 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
9940 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
9942 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9943 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9944 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9945 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9947 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9948 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9949 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9951 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9952 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
9953 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
9954 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
9955 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9956 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9957 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9960 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9961 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9962 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9963 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9964 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9966 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9967 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
9968 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
9969 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
9970 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
9972 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9973 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9974 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9977 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
9978 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
9979 compilation and portability fixes.
9981 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
9982 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
9983 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
9984 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
9985 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
9986 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
9987 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
9988 our anti-denial-of-service code.
9990 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.7-rc. For a complete list of changes
9991 since 0.3.3.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
9993 o Minor features (compatibility):
9994 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9995 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9996 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9998 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9999 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
10000 Implements ticket 27449.
10001 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
10002 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
10005 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10006 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
10007 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
10008 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
10009 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
10010 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
10011 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
10012 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
10015 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
10016 - Disable gcc hardening in Appveyor Windows 64-bit builds. As of
10017 August 29 2018, Appveyor images come with gcc 8.2.0 by default.
10018 Executables compiled for 64-bit Windows with this version of gcc
10019 crash when Tor's --enable-gcc-hardening flag is set. Fixes bug
10020 27460; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10021 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
10022 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10023 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
10024 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10026 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10027 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
10028 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
10031 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
10032 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
10033 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
10034 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
10035 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10036 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
10037 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
10040 Changes in version 0.3.4.7-rc - 2018-08-24
10041 Tor 0.3.4.7-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
10042 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
10043 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
10044 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
10046 o Minor features (bug workaround):
10047 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
10048 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
10049 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
10051 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10052 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
10053 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10055 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
10056 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
10057 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
10058 Implements ticket 27275.
10059 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
10060 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
10062 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
10063 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10066 o Minor features (directory authorities):
10067 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
10068 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
10069 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
10071 o Minor features (geoip):
10072 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10073 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
10075 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
10076 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
10077 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
10078 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10080 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
10081 - Improve Appveyor CI IRC logging. Generate correct branches and
10082 URLs for pull requests and tags. Use unambiguous short commits.
10083 Fixes bug 26979; bugfix on master.
10084 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10085 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
10086 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
10087 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10089 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
10090 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
10091 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
10092 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10094 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10095 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
10096 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
10097 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
10098 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
10100 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10101 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
10102 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
10105 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10106 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
10107 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
10110 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
10111 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
10113 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
10114 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
10115 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
10116 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
10117 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10118 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
10119 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
10121 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
10122 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10123 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
10124 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
10125 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
10127 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
10128 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
10129 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
10130 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
10131 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10133 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
10134 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
10135 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
10136 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
10137 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10139 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
10140 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
10141 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10144 Changes in version 0.3.4.6-rc - 2018-08-06
10145 Tor 0.3.4.6-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
10146 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
10147 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
10148 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
10150 o Major bugfixes (event scheduler):
10151 - When we enable a periodic event, schedule it in the event loop
10152 rather than running it immediately. Previously, we would re-run
10153 periodic events immediately in the middle of (for example)
10154 changing our options, with unpredictable effects. Fixes bug 27003;
10155 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10157 o Minor features (compilation):
10158 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10159 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10161 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
10162 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
10163 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
10164 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
10165 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
10166 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
10168 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
10169 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
10170 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
10171 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
10173 o Minor features (controller):
10174 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
10175 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
10176 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
10178 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
10179 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
10180 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
10183 o Minor features (geoip):
10184 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10185 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10187 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
10188 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
10190 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10191 - Update build system so that tor builds again with --disable-unittests
10192 after recent refactoring. Fixes bug 26789; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
10193 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10194 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10195 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10196 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10198 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10199 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
10200 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10201 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
10202 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
10203 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
10205 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
10206 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
10207 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
10210 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
10211 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10212 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10214 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10215 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
10216 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
10219 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10220 - Avoid a compilation error in test_bwmgt.c on Solaris 10. Fixes bug
10221 26994; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10222 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
10223 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
10224 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10226 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
10227 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
10228 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
10229 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10231 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10232 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
10233 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10235 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
10236 - When running the ntor_ref.py and hs_ntor_ref.py tests, make sure
10237 only to pass strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python
10238 subprocess module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this.
10239 Fixes bug 26535; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha (for ntor_ref.py) and
10240 0.3.1.1-alpha (for hs_ntor_ref.py).
10242 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
10243 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
10244 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
10245 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
10246 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
10249 Changes in version 0.3.4.5-rc - 2018-07-13
10250 Tor 0.3.4.5-rc moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10251 bridge relays should upgrade.
10253 o Directory authority changes:
10254 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10255 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10256 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10259 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
10260 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10261 bridge relays should upgrade.
10263 o Directory authority changes:
10264 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10265 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10266 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10269 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
10270 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10271 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
10274 o Directory authority changes:
10275 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10276 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10277 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10279 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
10280 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10281 Closes ticket 26343.
10283 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10284 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10285 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10286 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10287 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10289 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10290 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
10291 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
10293 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10294 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10295 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10296 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10298 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10299 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
10300 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
10302 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10303 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10304 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10305 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10306 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10307 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10309 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10310 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
10311 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
10312 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
10314 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10315 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10316 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10319 o Minor features (geoip):
10320 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10321 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10323 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10324 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10325 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10326 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10327 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10329 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10330 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10331 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10333 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10334 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
10335 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
10336 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
10337 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10338 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10339 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10340 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10343 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10344 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10345 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10346 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10347 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10348 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10350 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10351 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
10352 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
10353 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
10354 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
10356 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10357 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10358 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10359 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10360 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10362 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10363 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10364 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10367 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10368 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10369 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10371 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10372 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10373 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10374 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10376 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10377 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
10378 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10379 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
10380 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
10381 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
10382 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10384 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10385 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
10386 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
10387 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
10390 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10391 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
10392 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10394 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10395 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
10396 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10398 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10399 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
10400 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
10401 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
10404 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10405 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
10406 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
10407 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
10409 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10410 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10411 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10413 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10414 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
10415 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
10418 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
10419 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10420 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
10423 o Directory authority changes:
10424 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10425 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10426 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10428 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
10429 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10430 Closes ticket 26343.
10432 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10433 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10434 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10435 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10436 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10438 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10439 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10440 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10441 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10443 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10444 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10445 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10446 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10447 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10448 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10450 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10451 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10452 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10455 o Minor features (geoip):
10456 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10457 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10459 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10460 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10461 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10462 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10463 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10465 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10466 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10467 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10469 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10470 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10471 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10472 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10475 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10476 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10477 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10478 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10479 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10480 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10482 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10483 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10484 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10485 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10486 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10488 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10489 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10490 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10493 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10494 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10495 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10497 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10498 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10499 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10500 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10502 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10503 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10504 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10506 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10507 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
10508 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
10511 Changes in version 0.3.4.4-rc - 2018-07-09
10512 Tor 0.3.4.4-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
10513 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
10514 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
10515 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
10517 o Minor features (compilation):
10518 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10519 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10522 o Minor features (geoip):
10523 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10524 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10526 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
10527 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
10529 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10530 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10531 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10532 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10533 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10535 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
10536 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
10537 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10538 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
10539 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
10540 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
10542 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
10543 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
10544 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
10547 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
10548 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10549 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10551 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
10552 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
10553 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
10554 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
10555 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10556 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10557 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10558 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10562 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
10563 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
10564 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
10566 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10567 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
10568 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
10569 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
10571 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10572 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
10573 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
10576 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10577 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10578 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10581 o Minor features (geoip):
10582 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10583 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10585 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10586 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
10587 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
10588 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
10590 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10591 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
10592 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
10593 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
10594 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
10597 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10598 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10599 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10600 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10601 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10603 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10604 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
10605 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
10606 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
10608 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10609 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10610 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10612 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10613 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
10614 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
10615 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
10618 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10619 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
10620 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
10621 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10623 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10624 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
10625 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
10626 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
10627 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10628 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10629 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10630 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10634 Changes in version 0.3.4.3-alpha - 2018-06-26
10635 Tor 0.3.4.3-alpha fixes several bugs in earlier versions, including
10636 one that was causing stability issues on directory authorities.
10638 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
10639 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
10640 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
10641 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
10643 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing):
10644 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
10645 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
10648 o Minor feature (directory authorities):
10649 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
10650 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
10651 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
10653 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic):
10654 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
10655 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
10656 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
10658 o Minor features (unit tests):
10659 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
10660 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
10661 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
10664 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10665 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
10666 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
10667 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10668 - When linking the libtor_testing.a library, only include the
10669 dirauth object files once. Previously, they were getting added
10670 twice. Fixes bug 26402; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10671 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
10672 Closes ticket 26245.
10674 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10675 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
10676 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
10677 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
10678 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
10679 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10681 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10682 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
10683 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
10684 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
10687 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10688 - Fix compilation of the doctests in the Rust crypto crate. Fixes
10689 bug 26415; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10690 - Instead of trying to read the geoip configuration files from
10691 within the unit tests, instead create our own ersatz files with
10692 just enough geoip data in the format we expect. Trying to read
10693 from the source directory created problems on Windows with mingw,
10694 where the build system's paths are not the same as the platform's
10695 paths. Fixes bug 25787; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10696 - Refrain from trying to get an item from an empty smartlist in
10697 test_bridges_clear_bridge_list. Set DEBUG_SMARTLIST in unit tests
10698 to catch improper smartlist usage. Furthermore, enable
10699 DEBUG_SMARTLIST globally when build is configured with fragile
10700 hardening. Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10703 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
10704 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
10705 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
10707 o Directory authority changes:
10708 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10709 Closes ticket 26343.
10711 o Minor features (geoip):
10712 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10713 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
10715 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10716 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10717 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10718 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10719 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10720 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10722 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10723 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
10724 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10726 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10727 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
10728 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
10729 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
10730 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10732 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10733 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10734 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10736 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10737 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
10738 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
10739 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
10740 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
10741 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
10744 Changes in version 0.3.4.2-alpha - 2018-06-12
10745 Tor 0.3.4.2-alpha fixes several minor bugs in the previous alpha
10746 release, and forward-ports an authority-only security fix from 0.3.3.6.
10748 o Directory authority changes:
10749 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10750 Closes ticket 26343.
10752 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service, also in 0.3.3.6):
10753 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
10754 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
10755 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
10756 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
10758 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10759 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
10760 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
10761 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
10763 o Minor features (geoip):
10764 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10765 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
10767 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl):
10768 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10769 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10770 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10771 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10772 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10774 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10775 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
10776 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10777 - Fix compilation when using OpenSSL 1.1.0 with the "no-deprecated"
10778 flag enabled. Fixes bug 26156; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10779 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
10780 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
10781 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10783 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
10784 - Do not count 0-length RELAY_COMMAND_DATA cells as valid data in
10785 CIRC_BW events. Previously, such cells were counted entirely in
10786 the OVERHEAD field. Now they are not. Fixes bug 26259; bugfix
10789 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10790 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
10791 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
10792 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
10793 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10795 o Minor bugfixes (hardening):
10796 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10797 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10799 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10800 - Fix a bug that blocked the creation of ephemeral v3 onion
10801 services. Fixes bug 25939; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10803 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
10804 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
10805 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
10806 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
10810 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
10811 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
10812 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10814 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
10815 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
10816 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
10817 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
10818 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
10819 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
10821 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.5-rc. For a list of all changes
10822 since 0.3.2.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
10824 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10825 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10826 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10827 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10828 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10830 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
10831 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
10832 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
10833 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
10834 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
10836 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10837 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
10838 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
10839 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10841 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10842 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
10843 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
10844 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
10846 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10847 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
10848 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
10850 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10851 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
10852 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
10855 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10856 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
10857 Closes ticket 26006.
10859 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10860 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10861 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10862 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10863 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10864 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10866 o Minor features (geoip):
10867 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
10868 database. Closes ticket 26104.
10870 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10871 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10872 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10875 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10876 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10877 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10878 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10879 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10881 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10882 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
10883 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
10884 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
10885 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
10888 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10889 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10890 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10892 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10893 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
10894 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10895 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
10896 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
10897 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
10898 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10900 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10901 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
10902 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10904 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10905 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
10906 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
10909 Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-17
10910 Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It
10911 includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's binary size and idle CPU
10912 usage on mobile, along with prep work for new bandwidth scanners,
10913 improvements to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous
10914 other small features and bugfixes.
10916 o New system requirements:
10917 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
10918 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
10919 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
10920 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
10922 o Major feature (directory authority, modularization):
10923 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
10924 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
10925 To disable the module, the configure option
10926 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
10927 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
10929 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
10930 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
10931 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
10932 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
10933 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
10934 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
10935 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
10936 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
10937 events are now disabled with Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
10938 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
10939 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes ticket
10941 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
10942 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
10943 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
10944 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
10945 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
10946 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
10947 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
10948 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
10949 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
10950 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
10951 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
10952 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
10953 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
10954 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
10955 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
10956 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
10957 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
10958 Tor's uptime (26009).
10960 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security):
10961 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10962 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10963 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10964 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10966 o Major bugfixes (crash):
10967 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
10968 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
10969 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10971 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
10972 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
10973 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
10974 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
10976 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
10977 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
10978 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
10980 o Major bugfixes (protover, voting):
10981 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
10982 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
10983 avoiding a potential (but small impact) DoS attack where specially
10984 crafted protocol strings would expand to several potential
10985 megabytes in memory. In the process, several portions of code were
10986 revised to be methods on new, custom types, rather than functions
10987 taking interchangeable types, thus increasing type safety of the
10988 module. Custom error types and handling were added as well, in
10989 order to facilitate better error dismissal/handling in outside
10990 crates and avoid mistakenly passing an internal error string to C
10991 over the FFI boundary. Many tests were added, and some previous
10992 differences between the C and Rust implementations have been
10993 remedied. Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10995 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service):
10996 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
10997 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
11000 o Minor features (accounting):
11001 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
11002 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
11003 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
11004 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
11006 o Minor features (code quality):
11007 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
11008 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
11009 Closes ticket 25024.
11011 o Minor features (compatibility):
11012 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
11013 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
11014 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
11015 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
11016 Closes ticket 26006.
11018 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
11019 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
11020 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
11021 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
11022 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
11023 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
11025 o Minor features (configuration):
11026 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
11027 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
11028 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
11029 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
11030 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
11032 o Minor features (continuous integration):
11033 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
11034 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
11035 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
11036 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
11037 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
11039 o Minor features (control port):
11040 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
11041 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
11042 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
11043 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
11044 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
11045 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
11046 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
11047 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
11048 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
11049 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
11051 o Minor features (directory authority):
11052 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
11053 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
11054 Closes ticket 23909.
11056 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
11057 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
11058 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
11059 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
11061 o Minor features (entry guards):
11062 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
11063 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
11065 o Minor features (geoip):
11066 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
11067 database. Closes ticket 26104.
11069 o Minor features (performance):
11070 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
11071 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
11072 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
11073 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
11075 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
11076 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
11078 o Minor features (testing):
11079 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
11080 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
11081 more deterministic.
11082 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
11083 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
11084 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
11085 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
11086 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
11087 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
11089 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
11090 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
11091 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
11092 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
11093 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
11095 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
11096 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
11097 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
11098 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
11099 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
11100 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
11102 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
11103 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
11104 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
11105 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
11107 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection):
11108 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
11109 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
11110 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
11111 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
11114 o Minor bugfixes (client):
11115 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
11116 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
11119 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
11120 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
11121 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11122 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
11123 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
11125 o Minor bugfixes (control interface):
11126 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
11127 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
11128 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
11129 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11131 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11132 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
11133 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
11134 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
11135 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11137 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client):
11138 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the cell
11139 immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for close, but
11140 continue processing the cell as if the connection were open. Fixes bug
11141 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11143 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
11144 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
11145 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11146 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
11147 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
11148 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
11151 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
11152 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
11153 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
11154 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
11155 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
11158 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
11159 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
11160 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
11161 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
11162 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
11163 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
11164 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
11166 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11167 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
11168 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11170 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
11171 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
11172 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11173 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
11174 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
11175 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
11176 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11178 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
11179 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
11180 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
11181 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
11182 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
11183 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
11185 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11186 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
11187 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
11190 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
11191 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
11192 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
11193 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
11195 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
11196 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
11197 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
11198 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
11199 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
11200 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
11201 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
11203 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
11204 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
11205 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11207 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process):
11208 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
11209 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
11210 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11212 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11213 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
11214 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
11215 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
11216 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
11217 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11218 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
11219 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
11221 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
11222 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
11223 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11224 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
11225 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
11226 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
11227 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
11229 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
11230 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
11231 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
11232 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
11233 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
11235 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
11236 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
11237 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
11240 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
11241 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
11242 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
11243 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
11244 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
11245 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11247 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11248 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
11249 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
11250 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
11251 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
11252 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
11253 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
11254 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
11256 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
11257 confusing we renamed some functions and
11258 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
11259 router_should_check_reachability() and
11260 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
11261 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
11262 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
11263 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
11264 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
11266 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
11267 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
11269 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
11270 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
11271 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
11272 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
11273 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
11274 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
11275 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
11276 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
11277 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
11278 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
11279 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
11280 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
11281 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
11282 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
11283 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
11284 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
11285 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
11286 Closes ticket 25766.
11287 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
11288 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
11289 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
11290 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
11291 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
11292 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
11293 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
11294 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
11295 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
11296 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
11297 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
11298 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
11299 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
11300 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
11302 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
11303 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
11304 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
11305 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
11306 before. Closes ticket 26016.
11307 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
11308 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
11309 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
11310 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
11312 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
11313 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
11314 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
11315 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
11317 o Deprecated features:
11318 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
11319 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
11320 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
11321 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
11322 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
11323 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
11326 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
11327 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
11329 o Removed features:
11330 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
11331 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
11332 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
11333 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
11334 24378 and proposal 290.
11335 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
11336 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
11337 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
11338 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
11339 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
11340 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
11341 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
11342 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
11343 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
11344 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
11345 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
11346 their local router. Closes 25409.
11347 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
11348 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
11349 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
11350 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
11351 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
11352 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
11353 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
11354 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
11355 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
11356 Closes ticket 25268.
11359 Changes in version 0.3.3.5-rc - 2018-04-15
11360 Tor 0.3.3.5-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
11361 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
11363 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.3 series. If we find no
11364 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.3 release will
11365 be nearly identical to this one.
11367 o Major bugfixes (security, protover, voting):
11368 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
11369 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
11370 avoiding a potential memory-based DoS attack where specially
11371 crafted protocol strings would expand to fill available memory.
11372 Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11374 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
11375 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
11376 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
11377 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
11378 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
11379 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
11380 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
11382 o Minor feature (continuous integration):
11383 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
11384 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
11386 o Minor features (config options):
11387 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
11388 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
11389 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
11392 o Minor features (geoip):
11393 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11394 Country database. Closes ticket 25718.
11396 o Minor bugfixes (client):
11397 - When using a listed relay as a bridge, and also using
11398 microdescriptors, and considering that relay as a non-bridge in a
11399 circuit, treat its microdescriptor as a valid source of
11400 information about that relay. This change should prevent a non-
11401 fatal assertion error. Fixes bug 25691; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
11403 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11404 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
11405 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
11406 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11408 o Minor bugfixes (distribution, compilation, rust):
11409 - Build correctly when the rust dependencies submodule is loaded,
11410 but the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES environment variable is not set.
11411 Fixes bug 25679; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11412 - Actually include all of our Rust source in our source
11413 distributions. (Previously, a few of the files were accidentally
11414 omitted.) Fixes bug 25732; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
11416 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
11417 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
11418 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
11419 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
11420 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
11421 - Revert a misformatting issue in the ExitPolicy documentation.
11422 Fixes bug 25582; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11424 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
11425 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
11426 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
11427 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
11428 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
11430 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11431 - Re-instate counting the client HSDir fetch circuits against the
11432 MaxClientCircuitsPending rate limit. Fixes bug 24989; bugfix
11434 - Remove underscores from the _HSLayer{2,3}Nodes options. This
11435 expert-user configuration can now be enabled as HSLayer{2,3}Nodes.
11436 Fixes bug 25581; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha
11438 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11439 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
11440 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
11442 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
11443 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
11444 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
11448 Changes in version 0.3.3.4-alpha - 2018-03-29
11449 Tor 0.3.3.4-alpha includes various bugfixes for issues found during
11450 the alpha testing of earlier releases in its series. We are
11451 approaching a stable 0.3.3.4-alpha release: more testing is welcome!
11453 o New system requirements:
11454 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
11455 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
11457 o Major bugfixes (relay, connection):
11458 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
11459 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
11460 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
11461 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11463 o Minor features (geoip):
11464 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 8 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11465 Country database. Closes ticket 25469.
11467 o Minor features (log messages):
11468 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
11469 information about memory usage from the different compression
11470 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
11472 o Minor features (sandbox):
11473 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
11474 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
11475 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
11477 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
11478 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
11479 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
11480 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
11482 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
11483 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
11484 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
11486 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11487 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
11488 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
11489 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
11491 o Minor bugfixes (controller, reliability):
11492 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
11493 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
11494 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11496 o Major bugfixes (networking):
11497 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
11498 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
11499 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
11501 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
11502 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
11503 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
11505 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
11506 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service
11507 descriptor rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's
11508 valid-after time. Instead, log a warning message with extra
11509 information, so we can better hunt down the cause of this
11510 assertion. Fixes bug 25306; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11512 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11513 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
11514 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
11515 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
11517 - Rust crates are now automatically detected and tested. Previously,
11518 some crates were not tested by `make test-rust` due to a static
11519 string in the `src/test/test_rust.sh` script specifying which
11520 crates to test. Fixes bug 25560; bugfix on 0.3.3.3-alpha.
11522 o Minor bugfixes (testing, benchmarks):
11523 - Fix a crash when running benchmark tests on win32 systems. The
11524 crash was due to a mutex that wasn't initialized before logging
11525 and options were initialized. Fixes bug 25479; bugfix
11528 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, ipv6):
11529 - Avoid a bug warning that could occur when trying to connect to a
11530 relay over IPv6. This warning would occur on a Tor instance that
11531 downloads router descriptors, but prefers to use microdescriptors.
11532 Fixes bug 25213; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11534 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11535 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
11536 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
11540 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
11542 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
11543 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
11546 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
11547 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
11550 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11551 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11553 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11554 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11556 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11559 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
11560 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
11561 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
11563 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
11564 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
11565 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
11566 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
11569 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11570 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11571 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11572 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11575 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11576 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11577 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11578 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11579 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11580 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11581 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11582 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11583 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11584 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11585 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11586 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11587 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11589 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11590 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
11591 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
11593 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11594 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11595 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11596 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11597 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11598 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11599 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11601 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11602 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
11603 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11605 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11606 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
11607 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
11608 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
11609 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
11610 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
11611 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11613 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11614 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11615 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11616 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11618 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11619 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
11620 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
11621 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
11623 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11624 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11625 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11626 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11627 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11628 Closes ticket 24978.
11630 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11631 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
11632 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
11633 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
11634 information. Closes ticket 24801.
11635 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
11636 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
11637 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
11638 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
11640 o Minor features (geoip):
11641 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11644 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11645 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11646 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11647 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11648 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11650 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11651 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11652 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11653 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11654 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11656 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11657 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
11658 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
11659 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
11660 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
11663 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11664 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11665 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11666 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11667 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11668 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11669 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11670 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11671 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11672 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
11673 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
11676 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
11677 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
11678 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11680 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11681 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
11682 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
11685 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11686 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11687 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11688 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11689 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11690 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11691 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11693 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11694 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
11695 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11696 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
11697 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
11698 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
11699 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
11700 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
11701 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
11704 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
11705 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
11706 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
11707 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
11708 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
11709 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11711 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11712 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
11713 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
11714 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11716 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
11717 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11718 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11719 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11720 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11723 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11724 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11725 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11726 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11727 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11728 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11730 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11731 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11732 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11733 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11734 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11735 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11736 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11737 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11738 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11739 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11740 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11741 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11743 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11744 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
11745 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
11746 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11748 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11749 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11750 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11751 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11753 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11754 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
11755 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
11756 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
11759 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
11760 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
11761 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
11762 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
11763 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
11765 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11766 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11768 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11769 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11771 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11772 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
11773 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
11776 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
11777 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11778 later Tor releases.
11780 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11781 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11783 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11784 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11786 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11789 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
11790 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
11791 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
11793 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11794 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11795 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11796 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11799 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
11800 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11801 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11802 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11803 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11804 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11805 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11806 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11807 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11808 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11809 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11810 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11811 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11813 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
11814 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11815 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11816 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11817 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11818 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11819 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11820 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11821 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11823 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
11824 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11825 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11826 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11827 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11828 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11829 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11831 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
11832 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
11833 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
11834 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
11836 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
11837 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11838 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11839 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11840 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11841 Closes ticket 24978.
11843 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
11844 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11845 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11846 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11848 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
11849 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
11850 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
11851 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
11852 information. Closes ticket 24801.
11853 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
11854 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
11855 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
11856 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
11858 o Minor features (geoip):
11859 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11862 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11863 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
11864 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
11866 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
11867 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11868 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11869 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11870 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11872 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
11873 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11874 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11875 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11876 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11878 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
11879 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
11880 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
11881 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
11882 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
11885 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11886 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
11887 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11889 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11890 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
11891 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
11894 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11895 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11896 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11897 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11898 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11899 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11900 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11902 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
11903 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11904 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11905 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11906 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11909 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
11910 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11911 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11912 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11913 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11914 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11916 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
11917 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11918 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11919 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11921 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
11922 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11923 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11924 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11925 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11926 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11927 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11928 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11929 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11930 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11931 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11932 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11934 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
11935 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
11936 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
11937 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
11940 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11941 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
11942 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
11943 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
11944 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
11946 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11947 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11949 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11950 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11953 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
11954 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
11955 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
11958 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11959 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11961 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
11962 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
11963 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
11964 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
11965 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
11966 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
11969 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11970 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11972 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11975 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
11976 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
11977 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
11978 the DoS mitigations.)
11980 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11981 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11982 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11983 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11986 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11987 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
11988 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
11989 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11991 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11992 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11993 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11994 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11995 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11996 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11997 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11998 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11999 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
12000 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
12001 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
12002 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
12003 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
12005 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12006 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
12007 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
12008 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
12009 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
12010 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
12011 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12012 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
12013 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
12014 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
12015 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12017 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12018 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
12019 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12021 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12022 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
12023 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
12024 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
12025 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
12026 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
12027 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12029 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12030 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
12031 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
12032 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12034 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12035 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
12036 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
12037 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
12039 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12040 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
12041 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
12042 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
12043 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
12044 Closes ticket 24978.
12046 o Minor features (geoip):
12047 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12050 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12051 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
12052 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
12055 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12056 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
12057 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
12058 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
12059 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
12061 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12062 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
12063 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
12064 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
12065 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
12066 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
12067 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
12069 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12070 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
12071 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
12072 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
12073 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
12075 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12076 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
12077 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
12078 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12080 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12081 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
12082 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
12083 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
12084 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12086 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12087 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
12088 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
12089 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12091 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12092 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
12093 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
12094 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12096 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12097 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
12098 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
12099 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12101 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12102 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
12104 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
12105 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12107 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12108 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
12109 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
12111 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12112 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
12113 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
12114 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
12115 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12117 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12118 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
12119 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
12121 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
12122 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
12123 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
12127 Changes in version 0.3.3.3-alpha - 2018-03-03
12128 Tor 0.3.3.3-alpha is the third alpha release for the 0.3.3.x series.
12129 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
12130 against directory authorities tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
12132 Additionally, with this release, we are upgrading the severity of a
12133 bug fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha. Bug 24700, which was fixed in
12134 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely triggered in order to crash relays with
12135 a use-after-free pattern. As such, we are now tracking that bug as
12136 TROVE-2018-002 and CVE-2018-0491. This bug affected versions
12137 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12139 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
12142 Relays running 0.3.2.x should upgrade to one of the versions released
12143 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
12144 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
12145 the DoS mitigations.)
12147 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority):
12148 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
12149 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
12150 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
12153 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
12154 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
12155 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
12156 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
12157 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
12158 Closes ticket 24978.
12160 o Minor features (logging):
12161 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
12162 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
12164 o Minor features (testing):
12165 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
12168 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service):
12169 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
12170 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
12171 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
12172 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
12173 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
12174 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
12176 o Minor bugfixes (DoS mitigation):
12177 - Add extra safety checks when refilling the circuit creation bucket
12178 to ensure we never set a value above the allowed maximum burst.
12179 Fixes bug 25202; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
12180 - When a new consensus arrives, don't update our DoS-mitigation
12181 parameters if we aren't a public relay. Fixes bug 25223; bugfix
12184 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
12185 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
12186 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old option
12187 still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix on 0.2.6.3.
12189 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
12190 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
12191 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
12192 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
12193 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
12196 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
12197 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
12199 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
12200 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12202 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, rust):
12203 - Resolve a denial-of-service issue caused by an infinite loop in
12204 the rust protover code. Fixes bug 25250, bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12205 Also tracked as TROVE-2018-003.
12207 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12208 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
12209 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
12212 Changes in version 0.3.3.2-alpha - 2018-02-10
12213 Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is the second alpha in the 0.3.3.x series. It
12214 introduces a mechanism to handle the high loads that many relay
12215 operators have been reporting recently. It also fixes several bugs in
12216 older releases. If this new code proves reliable, we plan to backport
12217 it to older supported release series.
12219 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
12220 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
12221 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
12222 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
12223 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
12224 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
12225 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
12226 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
12227 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
12228 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
12229 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
12230 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
12231 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
12233 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
12234 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
12235 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
12236 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
12237 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
12238 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
12239 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
12240 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12242 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions):
12243 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
12244 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12246 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus):
12247 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
12248 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
12249 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12251 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
12252 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
12253 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
12254 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
12256 o Minor features (directory authority):
12257 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
12258 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
12260 o Minor features (geoip):
12261 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12264 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
12265 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
12266 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic for
12269 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
12270 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
12271 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
12272 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
12273 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
12275 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
12276 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
12277 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
12278 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
12279 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
12281 o Minor bugfixes (all versions of Tor):
12282 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
12283 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
12284 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
12286 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
12287 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
12288 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
12289 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
12290 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12292 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12293 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
12294 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
12295 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
12297 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12298 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
12299 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
12300 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12301 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
12302 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
12303 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
12305 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
12306 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
12307 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
12308 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
12309 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12310 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
12311 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
12312 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
12314 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
12315 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
12316 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
12317 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
12318 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
12319 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
12320 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12322 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
12323 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
12324 would call the Rust implementation of
12325 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
12326 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
12327 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
12328 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
12329 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12331 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
12332 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
12333 list, which would waste CPU cycles. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix
12336 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
12337 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
12338 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
12339 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
12340 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
12341 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
12343 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
12344 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
12345 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
12346 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
12347 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12349 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12350 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
12352 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
12353 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
12354 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
12357 o Documentation (man page):
12358 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
12359 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
12363 Changes in version 0.3.3.1-alpha - 2018-01-25
12364 Tor 0.3.3.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.3.x series. It adds
12365 several new features to Tor, including several improvements to
12366 bootstrapping, and support for an experimental "vanguards" feature to
12367 resist guard discovery attacks. This series also includes better
12368 support for applications that need to embed Tor or manage v3
12371 o Major features (embedding):
12372 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
12373 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
12374 Closes ticket 23684.
12375 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
12376 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
12377 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
12378 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
12379 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
12380 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
12382 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
12383 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
12384 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
12385 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements ticket 23826.
12386 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
12387 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts, they
12388 are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor clients
12389 on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor clients that
12390 have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements ticket 23828.
12391 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
12392 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
12395 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
12396 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
12397 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
12398 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
12399 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
12400 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
12401 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
12403 o Major features (onion services):
12404 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
12405 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
12406 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
12407 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
12408 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
12411 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
12412 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
12413 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
12414 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
12415 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
12416 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
12417 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
12418 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
12420 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
12421 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
12422 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
12423 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
12424 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
12426 o Major features (v3 onion services, ipv6):
12427 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
12428 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
12429 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
12430 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
12431 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
12432 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12434 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
12435 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
12436 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
12437 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
12438 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
12439 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
12440 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12441 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
12442 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
12443 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
12444 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12446 o Major bugfixes (relays):
12447 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
12448 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
12449 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
12450 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
12451 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
12452 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12454 o Minor feature (IPv6):
12455 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
12456 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
12457 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
12458 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
12459 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors.
12460 Implements ticket 23827.
12462 o Minor features (cleanup):
12463 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
12464 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
12466 o Minor features (defensive programming):
12467 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
12468 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
12469 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
12470 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
12471 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
12472 once. Part of ticket 24337.
12473 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
12474 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
12475 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
12477 o Minor features (embedding):
12478 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
12479 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
12480 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
12481 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
12482 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
12483 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
12484 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
12485 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
12486 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
12487 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside
12488 a separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
12489 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
12490 Closes ticket 23848.
12491 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
12492 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
12493 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
12495 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
12496 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
12497 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
12498 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
12499 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
12500 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
12501 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
12502 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
12505 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
12506 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
12507 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
12508 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
12509 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
12510 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
12511 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
12513 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
12514 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
12515 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
12516 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
12517 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
12518 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
12519 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
12520 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
12521 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
12522 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
12523 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
12524 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
12526 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
12527 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
12528 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
12530 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
12531 Implements ticket 24791.
12533 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
12534 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
12535 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
12536 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
12537 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
12538 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
12540 o Minor features (heartbeat):
12541 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
12542 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
12545 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
12546 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
12547 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
12548 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
12549 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
12551 o Minor features (log messages):
12552 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
12553 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
12554 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
12555 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
12557 o Minor features (logging, android):
12558 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
12561 o Minor features (performance):
12562 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
12563 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
12564 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
12565 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
12567 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
12568 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
12569 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
12570 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
12571 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
12572 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
12573 Implements ticket 24374.
12575 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
12576 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
12577 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
12578 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
12579 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
12581 o Minor features (performance, windows):
12582 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
12583 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
12584 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
12587 o Major features (relay):
12588 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
12589 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
12590 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
12591 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
12592 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
12594 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
12595 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
12596 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
12597 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
12598 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
12599 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
12600 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
12601 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
12602 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
12604 o Minor bugfix (network IPv6 test):
12605 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
12606 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
12607 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
12609 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
12610 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
12611 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
12612 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
12613 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
12614 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
12615 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12616 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
12617 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
12618 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
12619 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
12620 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
12623 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
12624 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
12625 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
12626 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
12629 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
12630 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
12631 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
12634 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
12635 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
12636 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
12638 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
12639 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12640 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
12641 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
12642 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
12644 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
12645 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
12646 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
12647 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12649 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
12650 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
12651 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12652 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
12653 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
12654 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
12656 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12657 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
12658 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
12659 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
12661 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
12662 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
12663 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
12664 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
12665 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12666 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
12669 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
12670 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
12671 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
12672 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12674 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening):
12675 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
12676 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
12677 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12679 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
12680 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
12681 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
12682 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
12683 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
12684 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
12685 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
12686 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
12687 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
12688 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
12689 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
12690 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
12692 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12693 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
12694 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12695 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
12696 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
12698 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12699 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
12701 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
12702 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
12703 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
12704 "aruna1234" and teor.
12705 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
12706 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
12707 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
12708 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
12710 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
12711 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
12712 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
12713 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
12714 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
12715 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
12716 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
12717 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
12718 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
12719 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
12721 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
12722 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
12725 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
12726 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
12728 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
12729 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
12730 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
12731 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
12732 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
12733 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
12736 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
12737 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
12738 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
12739 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
12740 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
12742 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
12743 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
12744 adding very little except for unit test.
12746 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
12747 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
12748 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
12749 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
12751 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
12752 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
12753 const. Implements ticket 24489.
12756 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
12757 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
12759 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
12760 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
12761 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
12762 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
12763 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
12764 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
12766 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
12767 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
12768 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
12769 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
12770 with the 0.2.9 series.
12772 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.2.8-rc. For a list of all
12773 changes since 0.3.1, see the ReleaseNotes file.
12775 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
12776 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
12777 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
12778 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
12779 information. Closes ticket 24801.
12780 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
12781 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
12782 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
12783 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
12785 o Minor features (geoip):
12786 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12789 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
12790 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
12791 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
12792 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
12793 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
12796 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12797 - Resolve a few shadowed-variable warnings in the onion service
12798 code. Fixes bug 24634; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12800 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
12801 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
12802 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
12803 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
12807 Changes in version 0.3.2.8-rc - 2017-12-21
12808 Tor 0.3.2.8-rc fixes a pair of bugs in the KIST and KISTLite
12809 schedulers that had led servers under heavy load to overload their
12810 outgoing connections. All relay operators running earlier 0.3.2.x
12811 versions should upgrade. This version also includes a mitigation for
12812 over-full DESTROY queues leading to out-of-memory conditions: if it
12813 works, we will soon backport it to earlier release series.
12815 This is the second release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find
12816 no new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2 release
12817 will be nearly identical to this.
12819 o Major bugfixes (KIST, scheduler):
12820 - The KIST scheduler did not correctly account for data already
12821 enqueued in each connection's send socket buffer, particularly in
12822 cases when the TCP/IP congestion window was reduced between
12823 scheduler calls. This situation lead to excessive per-connection
12824 buffering in the kernel, and a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug
12825 24665; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12827 o Minor features (geoip):
12828 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12831 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
12832 - Bump hsdir_spread_store parameter from 3 to 4 in order to increase
12833 the probability of reaching a service for a client missing
12834 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 24425; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12836 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
12837 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
12838 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
12839 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
12840 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
12843 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
12844 - Use a sane write limit for KISTLite when writing onto a connection
12845 buffer instead of using INT_MAX and shoving as much as it can.
12846 Because the OOM handler cleans up circuit queues, we are better
12847 off at keeping them in that queue instead of the connection's
12848 buffer. Fixes bug 24671; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12851 Changes in version 0.3.2.7-rc - 2017-12-14
12852 Tor 0.3.2.7-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
12853 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
12855 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find no
12856 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2. release will
12857 be nearly identical to this.
12859 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
12860 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
12861 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
12862 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
12863 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
12864 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
12865 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12867 o Minor features (logging):
12868 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
12871 o Minor features (portability):
12872 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
12873 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
12876 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
12877 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
12878 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
12879 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
12880 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12881 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
12882 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
12883 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
12884 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12885 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
12886 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
12887 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
12888 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12890 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12891 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
12892 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
12894 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12895 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
12896 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
12897 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
12898 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
12899 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
12900 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
12903 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
12904 - Fix a race where an onion service would launch a new intro circuit
12905 after closing an old one, but fail to register it before freeing
12906 the previously closed circuit. This bug was making the service
12907 unable to find the established intro circuit and thus not upload
12908 its descriptor, thus making a service unavailable for up to 24
12909 hours. Fixes bug 23603; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12911 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
12912 - Properly set the scheduler state of an unopened channel in the
12913 KIST scheduler main loop. This prevents a harmless but annoying
12914 log warning. Fixes bug 24502; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
12915 - Avoid a possible integer overflow when computing the available
12916 space on the TCP buffer of a channel. This had no security
12917 implications; but could make KIST allow too many cells on a
12918 saturated connection. Fixes bug 24590; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12919 - Downgrade to "info" a harmless warning about the monotonic time
12920 moving backwards: This can happen on platform not supporting
12921 monotonic time. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12924 Changes in version 0.3.2.6-alpha - 2017-12-01
12925 This version of Tor is the latest in the 0.3.2 alpha series. It
12926 includes fixes for several important security issues. All Tor users
12927 should upgrade to this release, or to one of the other releases coming
12930 o Major bugfixes (security):
12931 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12932 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12933 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12934 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12935 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12936 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12937 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12938 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12939 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12940 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12942 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12943 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12944 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12945 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12946 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12947 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12948 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12951 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
12952 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12953 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12954 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12955 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12957 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
12958 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12959 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12960 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12961 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12962 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12963 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
12964 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
12965 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12967 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
12968 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
12969 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
12970 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
12972 o Minor features (directory authority):
12973 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12976 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12977 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
12978 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
12979 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12982 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
12983 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
12984 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
12985 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
12987 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12988 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12989 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12990 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12991 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12992 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12993 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12994 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12995 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12996 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12997 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12999 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
13000 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
13001 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
13002 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
13003 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
13004 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
13005 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
13008 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13009 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
13010 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
13011 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
13012 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
13014 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13015 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
13016 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
13017 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
13018 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
13019 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13020 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
13021 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
13022 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13024 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
13025 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
13026 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
13027 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
13028 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
13029 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
13032 o Minor features (bridge):
13033 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
13034 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
13035 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
13036 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
13039 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13040 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
13043 o Minor features (geoip):
13044 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13047 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13048 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
13049 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
13050 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
13051 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13053 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13054 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
13055 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13057 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13058 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
13059 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
13060 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
13061 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
13062 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13064 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
13065 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
13066 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
13069 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
13070 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
13071 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
13072 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
13073 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13076 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
13077 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
13078 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
13079 to another of the releases coming out today.
13081 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
13082 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
13083 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13085 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13086 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
13087 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
13088 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
13089 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
13090 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
13091 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
13092 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
13093 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
13094 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
13095 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
13097 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
13098 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
13099 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
13100 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
13101 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
13102 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
13103 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
13106 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13107 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
13108 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
13109 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
13110 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
13112 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13113 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
13114 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
13115 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
13116 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
13117 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13118 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
13119 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
13120 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13122 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
13123 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
13124 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
13125 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
13126 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
13127 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
13130 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13131 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
13132 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
13133 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
13134 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
13135 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
13137 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
13138 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
13139 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
13140 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
13141 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
13144 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13145 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
13148 o Minor features (geoip):
13149 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13152 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13153 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
13154 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
13155 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
13156 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13158 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13159 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
13160 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13162 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13163 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
13164 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
13165 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
13166 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
13167 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13169 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
13170 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
13171 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
13172 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
13173 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13175 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13176 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
13177 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
13180 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
13181 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
13182 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
13183 to another of the releases coming out today.
13185 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
13186 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
13187 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
13188 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
13189 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
13190 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
13193 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13194 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
13195 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
13196 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
13197 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
13198 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
13199 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
13200 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
13201 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
13202 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
13203 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
13205 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
13206 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
13207 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
13208 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
13209 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
13210 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
13211 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
13214 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13215 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
13216 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
13217 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
13218 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
13220 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13221 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
13222 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
13223 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
13224 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
13225 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13227 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
13228 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
13229 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
13230 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
13231 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
13234 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13235 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
13238 o Minor features (geoip):
13239 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13242 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13243 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
13244 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
13245 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
13246 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
13247 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
13249 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13250 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
13251 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
13252 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
13253 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13255 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13256 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
13257 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13259 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13260 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
13261 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
13262 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
13263 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
13264 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13266 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
13267 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
13268 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
13269 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
13270 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13272 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13273 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
13274 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
13277 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
13278 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
13279 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
13280 to another of the releases coming out today.
13282 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
13283 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
13284 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13286 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13287 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
13288 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
13289 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
13290 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
13291 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
13292 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
13293 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
13294 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
13295 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
13296 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
13297 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
13298 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
13299 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
13300 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
13303 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13304 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
13305 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
13306 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
13307 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
13309 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13310 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
13311 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
13312 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
13313 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
13316 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
13317 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
13318 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
13319 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
13320 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
13323 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13324 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
13327 o Minor features (geoip):
13328 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13331 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13332 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
13333 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
13336 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
13337 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
13338 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
13339 to another of the releases coming out today.
13341 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
13342 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
13343 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13345 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13346 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
13347 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
13348 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
13349 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
13350 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
13351 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
13352 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
13353 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
13354 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
13355 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
13356 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
13357 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
13358 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
13359 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
13362 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13363 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
13364 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
13365 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
13366 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
13367 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13369 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
13370 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
13371 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
13372 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
13373 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
13376 o Minor features (geoip):
13377 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13381 Changes in version 0.3.2.5-alpha - 2017-11-22
13382 Tor 0.3.2.5-alpha is the fifth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
13383 fixes several stability and reliability bugs, including a fix for
13384 intermittent bootstrapping failures that some people have been seeing
13385 since the 0.3.0.x series.
13387 Please test this alpha out -- many of these fixes will soon be
13388 backported to stable Tor versions if no additional bugs are found
13391 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
13392 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
13393 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
13394 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
13395 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
13396 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
13397 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
13398 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
13399 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
13400 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
13401 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
13404 o Minor features (directory authority):
13405 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
13406 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
13407 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
13408 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
13410 o Minor features (geoip):
13411 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13414 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13415 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
13416 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
13418 o Minor features (logging):
13419 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
13420 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
13422 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
13423 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
13425 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13426 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
13427 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
13428 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
13429 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
13430 - When detecting OpenSSL on Windows from our configure script, make
13431 sure to try linking with the ws2_32 library. Fixes bug 23783;
13432 bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
13434 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13435 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
13436 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
13439 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
13440 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
13441 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
13442 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13444 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
13445 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
13446 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13447 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
13448 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
13449 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
13450 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
13451 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
13452 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
13455 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13456 - Only log once if we notice that KIST support is gone. Fixes bug
13457 24158; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13458 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
13459 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
13460 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
13461 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13463 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
13464 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
13465 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
13466 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
13467 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
13468 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
13470 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
13471 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
13472 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
13473 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
13474 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13475 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
13476 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
13478 - Silence a warning about failed v3 onion descriptor uploads that
13479 can happen naturally under certain edge cases. Fixes part of bug
13480 23662; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13482 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
13483 - Fix a memory leak in one of the bridge-distribution test cases.
13484 Fixes bug 24345; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
13485 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
13486 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
13487 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
13488 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
13489 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
13492 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
13493 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
13494 section. Closes ticket 24254.
13497 Changes in version 0.3.2.4-alpha - 2017-11-08
13498 Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha is the fourth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series.
13499 It fixes several stability and reliability bugs, especially including
13500 a major reliability issue that has been plaguing fast exit relays in
13503 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
13504 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
13505 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
13506 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
13507 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
13508 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
13511 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, channel):
13512 - Stop processing scheduled channels if they closed while flushing
13513 cells. This can happen if the write on the connection fails
13514 leading to the channel being closed while in the scheduler loop.
13515 Fixes bug 23751; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13517 o Minor features (logging, scheduler):
13518 - Introduce a SCHED_BUG() function to log extra information about
13519 the scheduler state if we ever catch a bug in the scheduler.
13520 Closes ticket 23753.
13522 o Minor features (removed deprecations):
13523 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
13524 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
13525 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
13526 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
13528 o Minor features (testing):
13529 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
13530 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
13532 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
13533 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
13534 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
13535 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
13536 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13538 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, v3 single onion services):
13539 - Remove buggy code for IPv6-only v3 single onion services, and
13540 reject attempts to configure them. This release supports IPv4,
13541 dual-stack, and IPv6-only v3 onion services; and IPv4 and dual-
13542 stack v3 single onion services. Fixes bug 23820; bugfix
13545 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
13546 - Give only a protocol warning when the ed25519 key is not
13547 consistent between the descriptor and microdescriptor of a relay.
13548 This can happen, for instance, if the relay has been flagged
13549 NoEdConsensus. Fixes bug 24025; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13551 o Minor bugfixes (manpage, onion service):
13552 - Document that the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option is
13553 0-10 for v2 services and 0-20 for v3 services. Fixes bug 24115;
13554 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13556 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
13557 - Fix a minor memory leak at exit in the KIST scheduler. This bug
13558 should have no user-visible impact. Fixes bug 23774; bugfix
13560 - Fix a memory leak when decrypting a badly formatted v3 onion
13561 service descriptor. Fixes bug 24150; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13562 Found by OSS-Fuzz; this is OSS-Fuzz issue 3994.
13564 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
13565 - Cache some needed onion service client information instead of
13566 constantly computing it over and over again. Fixes bug 23623;
13567 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13568 - Properly retry HSv3 descriptor fetches when missing required
13569 directory information. Fixes bug 23762; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13571 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
13572 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
13573 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
13574 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
13575 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
13576 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
13577 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
13578 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
13579 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
13580 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
13581 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
13582 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
13584 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
13585 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
13586 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
13587 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
13588 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13590 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13591 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
13592 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13593 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
13594 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
13595 Closes ticket 24109.
13598 Changes in version 0.3.2.3-alpha - 2017-10-27
13599 Tor 0.3.2.3-alpha is the third release in the 0.3.2 series. It fixes
13600 numerous small bugs in earlier versions of 0.3.2.x, and adds a new
13601 directory authority, Bastet.
13603 o Directory authority changes:
13604 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13605 Closes ticket 23910.
13606 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13607 Closes ticket 23592.
13609 o Minor features (bridge):
13610 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
13611 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
13612 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
13613 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
13614 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
13615 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
13616 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
13618 o Minor features (client, entry guards):
13619 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
13620 Resolves ticket 23670.
13622 o Minor features (geoip):
13623 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13626 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
13627 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
13628 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
13629 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13631 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
13632 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
13633 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13635 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
13636 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
13637 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
13638 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
13639 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
13640 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13642 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
13643 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
13644 only fetch the service descriptor once.
13645 - When a descriptor fetch fails with a non-recoverable error, close
13646 all pending SOCKS requests for that .onion. Fixes bug 23653;
13647 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13649 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
13650 - Always regenerate missing hidden service public key files. Prior
13651 to this, if the public key was deleted from disk, it wouldn't get
13652 recreated. Fixes bug 23748; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. Patch
13654 - Make sure that we have a usable ed25519 key when the intro point
13655 relay supports ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 24002;
13656 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13658 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, v2):
13659 - When reloading configured hidden services, copy all information
13660 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
13661 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
13662 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
13664 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
13665 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
13666 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13668 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13669 - Avoid a BUG warning when receiving a dubious CREATE cell while an
13670 option transition is in progress. Fixes bug 23952; bugfix
13673 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13674 - Adjust the GitLab CI configuration to more closely match that of
13675 Travis CI. Fixes bug 23757; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
13676 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
13677 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13678 - When running unit tests as root, skip a test that would fail
13679 because it expects a permissions error. This affects some
13680 continuous integration setups. Fixes bug 23758; bugfix
13682 - Stop unconditionally mirroring the tor repository in GitLab CI.
13683 This prevented developers from enabling GitLab CI on master. Fixes
13684 bug 23755; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
13685 - Fix the hidden service v3 descriptor decoding fuzzing to use the
13686 latest decoding API correctly. Fixes bug 21509; bugfix
13689 o Minor bugfixes (warnings):
13690 - When we get an HTTP request on a SOCKS port, tell the user about
13691 the new HTTPTunnelPort option. Previously, we would give a "Tor is
13692 not an HTTP Proxy" message, which stopped being true when
13693 HTTPTunnelPort was introduced. Fixes bug 23678; bugfix
13697 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
13698 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13699 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13701 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
13702 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
13703 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13705 o Directory authority changes:
13706 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13707 Closes ticket 23910.
13708 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13709 Closes ticket 23592.
13711 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13712 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13713 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13714 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13715 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13717 o Minor features (geoip):
13718 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13721 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13722 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13723 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13724 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13725 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13726 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13727 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13728 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13729 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13731 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13732 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13733 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13734 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13735 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13736 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13737 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13738 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13739 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13742 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
13743 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13744 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
13745 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13747 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
13748 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
13749 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13751 o Directory authority changes:
13752 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13753 Closes ticket 23910.
13754 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13755 Closes ticket 23592.
13757 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13758 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13759 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13760 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13762 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13763 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13764 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13765 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13766 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13768 o Minor features (geoip):
13769 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13773 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
13774 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13775 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
13776 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13778 o Directory authority changes:
13779 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13780 Closes ticket 23910.
13781 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13782 Closes ticket 23592.
13784 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13785 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13786 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13787 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13789 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13790 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13791 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13792 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13793 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13795 o Minor features (geoip):
13796 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13799 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13800 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
13801 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
13802 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
13803 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
13804 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
13805 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
13806 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
13809 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
13810 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
13811 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13813 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13814 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
13815 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
13816 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
13817 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
13818 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13819 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
13822 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
13823 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13824 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
13825 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13827 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
13828 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
13829 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13831 o Directory authority changes:
13832 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13833 Closes ticket 23910.
13834 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13835 Closes ticket 23592.
13837 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13838 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13839 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13840 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13842 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13843 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13844 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13845 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13846 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13848 o Minor features (geoip):
13849 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13852 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13853 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
13854 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
13855 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
13856 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
13857 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
13858 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
13859 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
13862 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13863 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
13864 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
13865 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13867 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
13868 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
13869 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13871 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13872 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
13873 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
13874 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
13875 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
13876 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13877 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
13880 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
13881 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
13882 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
13883 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
13884 a new directory authority, Bastet.
13886 o Directory authority changes:
13887 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13888 Closes ticket 23910.
13889 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13890 Closes ticket 23592.
13892 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13893 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13894 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13895 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13897 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13898 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13899 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13900 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13901 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13903 o Minor features (geoip):
13904 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13907 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13908 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
13909 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
13910 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
13912 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13913 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
13914 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
13917 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13918 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
13919 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
13921 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13922 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
13923 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
13924 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13926 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
13927 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
13928 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13930 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13931 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
13932 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
13936 Changes in version 0.3.2.2-alpha - 2017-09-29
13937 Tor 0.3.2.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.2 series. This
13938 release fixes several minor bugs in the new scheduler and next-
13939 generation onion services; both features were newly added in the 0.3.2
13940 series. Other fixes in this alpha include several fixes for non-fatal
13941 tracebacks which would appear in logs.
13943 With the aim to stabilise the 0.3.2 series by 15 December 2017, this
13944 alpha does not contain any substantial new features. Minor features
13945 include better testing and logging.
13947 The following comprises the complete list of changes included
13950 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
13951 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13952 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13953 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13955 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
13956 - If a channel is put into the scheduler's pending list, then it
13957 starts closing, and then if the scheduler runs before it finishes
13958 closing, the scheduler will get stuck trying to flush its cells
13959 while the lower layers refuse to cooperate. Fix that race
13960 condition by giving the scheduler an escape method. Fixes bug
13961 23676; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13963 o Minor features (build, compilation):
13964 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
13965 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
13966 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
13967 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
13968 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
13969 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
13970 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
13971 Closes ticket 23643.
13973 o Minor features (directory authorities):
13974 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13975 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13976 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13977 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13979 o Minor features (hidden service, circuit, logging):
13980 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
13981 the circuit identifier(s).
13982 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
13983 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
13985 o Minor features (logging):
13986 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
13987 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
13988 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
13989 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
13990 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
13992 o Minor features (relay):
13993 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
13994 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
13995 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
13996 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
13998 o Minor features (robustness):
13999 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
14000 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
14002 o Minor features (spec conformance, bridge, diagnostic):
14003 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
14004 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
14005 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
14006 related to ticket 23080.
14008 o Minor features (testing):
14009 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
14010 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
14013 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
14014 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
14015 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
14017 - Avoid an assertion failure when logging a state file clock skew
14018 very early in bootstrapping. Fixes bug 23607; bugfix
14021 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
14022 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
14023 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
14024 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
14025 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
14026 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
14027 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
14028 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
14029 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14031 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
14032 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
14033 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
14036 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
14037 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
14038 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
14039 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14041 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
14042 - Don't log an assertion failure when we can't find the right
14043 information to extend to an introduction point. In rare cases,
14044 this could happen, causing a warning, even though tor would
14045 recover gracefully. Fixes bug 23159; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14046 - Pad RENDEZVOUS cell up to the size of the legacy cell which is
14047 much bigger so the rendezvous point can't distinguish which hidden
14048 service protocol is being used. Fixes bug 23420; bugfix
14051 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay):
14052 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
14053 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
14054 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14056 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
14057 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
14058 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
14059 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
14060 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
14061 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14063 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
14064 - When switching schedulers due to a consensus change, we didn't
14065 give the new scheduler a chance to react to the consensus. Fix
14066 that. Fixes bug 23537; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14067 - Make the KISTSchedRunInterval option a non negative value. With
14068 this, the way to disable KIST through the consensus is to set it
14069 to 0. Fixes bug 23539; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14070 - Only notice log the selected scheduler when we switch scheduler
14071 types. Fixes bug 23552; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14072 - Avoid a compilation warning on macOS in scheduler_ev_add() caused
14073 by a different tv_usec data type. Fixes bug 23575; bugfix
14075 - Make a hard exit if tor is unable to pick a scheduler which can
14076 happen if the user specifies a scheduler type that is not
14077 supported and not other types in Schedulers. Fixes bug 23581;
14078 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14079 - Properly initialize the scheduler last run time counter so it is
14080 not 0 at the first tick. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14082 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14083 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
14084 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
14086 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
14087 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
14089 - The removal of some old scheduler options caused some tests to
14090 fail on BSD systems. Assume current behavior is correct and make
14091 the tests pass again. Fixes bug 23566; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14093 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14094 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
14095 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
14098 o Deprecated features:
14099 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
14100 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
14101 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
14104 - HiddenServiceVersion man page entry wasn't mentioning the now
14105 supported version 3. Fixes ticket 23580; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14106 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
14107 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
14108 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
14109 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
14110 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
14111 Closes ticket 18736.
14114 Changes in version 0.3.2.1-alpha - 2017-09-18
14115 Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
14116 includes support for our next-generation ("v3") onion service
14117 protocol, and adds a new circuit scheduler for more responsive
14118 forwarding decisions from relays. There are also numerous other small
14119 features and bugfixes here.
14121 Below are the changes since Tor 0.3.1.7.
14123 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
14124 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
14125 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
14126 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
14127 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
14128 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
14129 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
14130 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
14131 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
14132 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
14133 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
14134 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
14136 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
14137 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
14138 more information, see the design paper at
14139 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
14140 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
14141 Closes ticket 12541.
14143 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
14144 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
14145 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
14146 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
14147 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
14148 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
14151 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
14152 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
14154 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
14157 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
14160 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
14162 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
14164 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
14166 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
14167 they are 56 characters long, as in
14168 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
14170 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
14171 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
14172 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
14173 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
14174 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
14177 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
14178 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
14179 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
14180 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
14181 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
14182 options. We will publish a blog post about this new feature
14185 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
14186 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
14187 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
14188 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
14190 o Minor features (bug detection):
14191 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
14192 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
14193 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
14195 o Minor features (client):
14196 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
14197 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
14198 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
14199 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
14200 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
14201 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
14202 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
14203 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
14204 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
14205 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
14207 o Minor features (command line):
14208 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
14209 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
14210 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
14212 o Minor features (control port):
14213 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
14214 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
14215 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
14217 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
14218 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
14220 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
14221 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
14222 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
14223 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
14224 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
14225 Closes ticket 23237.
14226 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
14227 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
14229 o Minor features (development support):
14230 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
14231 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
14232 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
14233 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
14234 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
14235 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
14237 o Minor features (ed25519):
14238 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
14239 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
14240 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
14242 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
14243 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
14244 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
14246 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
14247 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
14248 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
14249 another program, regardless of the settings of
14250 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
14251 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
14252 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
14254 o Minor features (logging):
14255 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
14256 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
14257 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
14259 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
14260 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
14262 o Minor features (portability):
14263 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
14264 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
14265 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
14266 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
14268 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
14269 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
14270 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
14271 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
14272 results. Closes ticket 22731.
14274 o Minor features (startup, safety):
14275 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
14276 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
14279 o Minor features (static analysis):
14280 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
14281 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
14284 o Minor features (testing):
14285 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
14286 hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
14287 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
14288 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 hidden
14289 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
14291 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
14292 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
14293 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
14294 Coverity as CID 1415728.
14296 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
14297 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
14298 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
14299 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
14300 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
14301 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
14302 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
14303 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14305 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
14306 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
14307 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
14308 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
14309 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14310 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
14311 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
14312 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
14314 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14315 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
14316 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14318 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
14319 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
14320 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
14321 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
14323 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
14324 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
14325 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
14326 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
14327 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
14328 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
14330 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
14331 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
14334 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
14335 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
14336 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
14337 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14339 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
14340 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
14341 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
14342 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
14343 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
14344 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
14345 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
14348 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
14349 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
14350 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
14351 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14353 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging):
14354 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
14355 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14357 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14358 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
14359 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
14360 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
14361 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
14362 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
14364 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
14365 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
14366 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
14368 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
14369 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
14370 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
14372 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
14373 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
14374 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
14375 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
14377 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14378 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
14379 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14381 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14382 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
14383 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
14384 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
14385 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
14386 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
14387 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
14388 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14390 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
14391 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
14392 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
14393 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14394 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
14395 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
14396 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14398 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
14399 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
14400 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
14401 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
14403 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14404 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
14405 function from the general code to handle channel state
14406 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
14407 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
14408 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
14409 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
14410 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
14411 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
14412 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
14413 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
14415 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
14416 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
14418 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
14419 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
14420 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
14421 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
14422 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
14423 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
14424 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
14425 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
14426 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
14427 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
14428 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
14429 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
14431 o Deprecated features:
14432 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
14433 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
14434 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
14438 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
14439 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
14440 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
14441 Closes ticket 15645.
14442 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
14443 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
14444 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
14445 file. Closes ticket 21148.
14447 o Removed features:
14448 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
14449 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
14450 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
14451 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
14452 Closes ticket 21031.
14453 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
14454 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
14457 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
14458 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
14461 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
14462 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
14463 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
14464 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
14466 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
14467 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
14468 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
14469 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
14471 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14472 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
14473 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
14474 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
14475 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
14478 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14481 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14482 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
14483 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
14486 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14487 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
14488 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
14489 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
14490 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
14491 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
14492 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
14493 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
14494 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
14496 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14497 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
14498 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
14499 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
14500 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
14501 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
14502 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
14503 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
14504 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
14507 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
14508 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
14511 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
14512 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
14513 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
14514 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
14516 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
14517 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
14518 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
14519 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
14520 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
14521 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
14522 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
14524 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
14525 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
14526 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
14527 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14529 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
14530 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
14531 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14533 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14534 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
14535 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14536 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
14538 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14539 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
14540 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
14541 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
14542 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
14544 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14545 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
14546 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
14547 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
14549 o Minor features (geoip):
14550 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14553 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14554 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
14555 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
14556 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
14558 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14559 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
14560 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14561 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
14562 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14563 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
14564 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
14565 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14567 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
14568 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
14569 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14571 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14572 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
14573 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
14576 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
14577 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
14578 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14579 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
14580 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14582 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14583 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
14584 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
14585 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
14586 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
14587 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14589 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14590 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
14591 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
14592 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
14593 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
14594 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
14595 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
14596 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
14597 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
14599 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14600 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
14601 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
14602 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14604 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14605 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
14606 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14608 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14609 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
14610 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
14611 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
14612 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14614 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
14615 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
14616 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
14619 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14620 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
14621 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
14622 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
14623 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14625 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14626 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
14627 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
14628 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
14629 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
14630 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
14631 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
14632 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
14633 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
14636 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
14637 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
14640 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
14641 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
14642 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
14643 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
14645 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
14646 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
14647 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
14648 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
14651 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14654 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
14655 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
14656 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14658 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
14659 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
14660 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14661 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
14662 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14664 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14665 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
14666 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
14667 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14669 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14670 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
14671 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
14673 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
14674 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
14675 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
14676 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
14679 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
14680 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
14682 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
14683 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
14684 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
14685 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
14686 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
14687 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
14688 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
14690 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
14691 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
14692 disabled. For more information, see
14693 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
14695 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
14696 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
14697 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
14698 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
14699 with the 0.2.9 series.
14701 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.6-rc. For a list of all
14702 changes since 0.3.0, see the ReleaseNotes file.
14704 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
14705 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
14706 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
14707 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This is also tracked as
14708 TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
14710 o Minor features (defensive programming):
14711 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
14712 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
14713 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
14716 o Minor features (diagnostic):
14717 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
14718 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
14719 attempt for bug 23105.
14721 o Minor features (geoip):
14722 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14725 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14726 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
14727 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14729 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14730 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
14731 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14732 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
14733 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14735 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14736 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
14737 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
14738 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14740 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
14741 - Fix a channelpadding unit test failure on slow systems by using
14742 mocked time instead of actual time. Fixes bug 23077; bugfix
14746 Changes in version 0.3.1.6-rc - 2017-09-05
14747 Tor 0.3.1.6-rc fixes a few small bugs and annoyances in the 0.3.1
14748 release series, including a bug that produced weird behavior on
14749 Windows directory caches.
14751 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.1 series. If we
14752 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.1 release
14753 will be nearly identical to it.
14755 o Major bugfixes (windows, directory cache):
14756 - On Windows, do not try to delete cached consensus documents and
14757 diffs before they are unmapped from memory--Windows won't allow
14758 that. Instead, allow the consensus cache directory to grow larger,
14759 to hold files that might need to stay around longer. Fixes bug
14760 22752; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14762 o Minor features (directory authority):
14763 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
14764 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
14765 Closes ticket 22348.
14767 o Minor features (geoip):
14768 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14771 o Minor features (testing):
14772 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
14775 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
14776 - Fix a memory leak when recovering space in the consensus cache.
14777 Fixes bug 23139; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14779 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
14780 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
14781 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
14782 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
14783 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
14784 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
14785 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
14786 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
14787 - Rate-limit the log messages if we exceed the maximum number of
14788 allowed intro circuits. Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14790 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
14791 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
14792 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
14794 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
14795 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
14796 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
14797 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
14799 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14800 - When a relay is not running as a directory cache, it will no
14801 longer generate compressed consensuses and consensus diff
14802 information. Previously, this was a waste of disk and CPU. Fixes
14803 bug 23275; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14805 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
14806 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
14807 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
14808 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
14809 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
14810 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
14812 o Minor bugfixes (stability):
14813 - Avoid crashing on a double-free when unable to load or process an
14814 included file. Fixes bug 23155; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
14815 with the clang static analyzer.
14817 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14818 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
14819 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
14820 - Port the hs_ntor handshake test to work correctly with recent
14821 versions of the pysha3 module. Fixes bug 23071; bugfix
14824 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
14825 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
14826 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
14827 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
14828 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
14829 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14830 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
14833 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
14834 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
14835 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
14836 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
14838 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14839 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
14840 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
14841 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
14842 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
14843 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
14844 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
14845 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
14846 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
14848 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14849 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
14850 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14851 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
14853 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14854 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
14855 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
14856 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
14857 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
14859 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14860 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14863 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
14864 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
14865 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
14866 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
14868 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14869 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
14870 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14871 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
14872 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14873 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
14874 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
14875 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
14878 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14879 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
14880 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
14883 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14884 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
14885 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
14886 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
14887 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
14888 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14890 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14891 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
14892 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
14893 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14895 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14896 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
14897 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14899 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
14900 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
14901 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14904 Changes in version 0.3.1.5-alpha - 2017-08-01
14905 Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha improves the performance of consensus diff
14906 calculation, fixes a crash bug on older versions of OpenBSD, and fixes
14907 several other bugs. If no serious bugs are found in this version, the
14908 next version will be a release candidate.
14910 This release also marks the end of support for the Tor 0.2.4.x,
14911 0.2.6.x, and 0.2.7.x release series. Those releases will receive no
14912 further bug or security fixes. Anyone still running or distributing
14913 one of those versions should upgrade.
14915 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
14916 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
14917 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
14918 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
14919 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
14920 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
14921 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
14922 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
14923 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
14925 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
14926 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
14927 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
14928 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
14929 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
14931 o Major bugfixes (relay, performance):
14932 - Perform circuit handshake operations at a higher priority than we
14933 use for consensus diff creation and compression. This should
14934 prevent circuits from starving when a relay or bridge receives a
14935 new consensus, especially on lower-powered machines. Fixes bug
14936 22883; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14938 o Minor features (bridge authority):
14939 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
14940 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
14942 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
14943 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
14944 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
14945 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
14946 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
14949 o Minor features (geoip):
14950 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14953 o Minor features (relay, performance):
14954 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
14955 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
14956 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
14957 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
14958 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
14961 o Minor bugfixes (build system, rust):
14962 - Fix a problem where Rust toolchains were not being found when
14963 building without --enable-cargo-online-mode, due to setting the
14964 $HOME environment variable instead of $CARGO_HOME. Fixes bug
14965 22830; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fix by Chelsea Komlo.
14967 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, zstd):
14968 - Write zstd epilogues correctly when the epilogue requires
14969 reallocation of the output buffer, even with zstd 1.3.0.
14970 (Previously, we worked on 1.2.0 and failed with 1.3.0). Fixes bug
14971 22927; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14973 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
14974 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
14975 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14976 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
14977 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14978 - Compile correctly when both openssl 1.1.0 and libscrypt are
14979 detected. Previously this would cause an error. Fixes bug 22892;
14980 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14981 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
14982 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
14983 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
14986 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
14987 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
14988 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
14989 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
14990 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
14991 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14993 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
14994 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
14995 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
14996 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
14997 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
14998 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
14999 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
15000 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
15003 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
15004 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
15005 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
15008 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
15009 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
15010 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
15011 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15013 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15014 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
15015 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15017 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
15018 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
15019 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
15020 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
15022 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
15023 - test_consdiff_base64cmp would fail on OS X because while OS X
15024 follows the standard of (less than zero/zero/greater than zero),
15025 it doesn't follow the convention of (-1/0/+1). Make the test
15026 comply with the standard. Fixes bug 22870; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15027 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
15028 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15031 Changes in version 0.3.1.4-alpha - 2017-06-29
15032 Tor 0.3.1.4-alpha fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
15033 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
15034 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
15035 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9
15038 This release also fixes several other bugs introduced in 0.3.0.x
15039 and 0.3.1.x, including others that can affect bandwidth usage
15042 o New dependencies:
15043 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
15044 pkg-config tool at build time. (This requirement was new in
15045 0.3.1.1-alpha, but was not noted at the time. Noting it here to
15046 close ticket 22623.)
15048 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
15049 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
15050 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
15051 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
15052 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
15053 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
15055 o Major bugfixes (compression, zstd):
15056 - Correctly detect a full buffer when decompressing a large zstd-
15057 compressed input. Previously, we would sometimes treat a full
15058 buffer as an error. Fixes bug 22628; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15060 o Major bugfixes (directory protocol):
15061 - Ensure that we send "304 Not modified" as HTTP status code when a
15062 client is attempting to fetch a consensus or consensus diff, and
15063 the best one we can send them is one they already have. Fixes bug
15064 22702; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15066 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
15067 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
15068 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
15069 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15071 o Minor features (bug mitigation, diagnostics, logging):
15072 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
15073 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
15074 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
15076 o Minor features (geoip):
15077 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15080 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
15081 - When compressing or decompressing a buffer, check for a failure to
15082 create a compression object. Fixes bug 22626; bugfix
15084 - When decompressing a buffer, check for extra data after the end of
15085 the compressed data. Fixes bug 22629; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15086 - When decompressing an object received over an anonymous directory
15087 connection, if we have already decompressed it using an acceptable
15088 compression method, do not reject it for looking like an
15089 unacceptable compression method. Fixes part of bug 22670; bugfix
15091 - When serving directory votes compressed with zlib, do not claim to
15092 have compressed them with zstd. Fixes bug 22669; bugfix
15094 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
15095 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
15096 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
15097 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
15098 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
15100 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
15101 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
15102 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
15103 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
15104 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
15105 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
15106 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
15107 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
15108 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
15109 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
15110 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
15111 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
15113 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15114 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
15115 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
15116 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
15117 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15118 - Fix a crash in the LZMA module, when the sandbox was enabled, and
15119 liblzma would allocate more than 16 MB of memory. We solve this by
15120 bumping the mprotect() limit in the sandbox module from 16 MB to
15121 20 MB. Fixes bug 22751; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15123 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15124 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
15125 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
15126 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
15127 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
15128 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
15129 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
15130 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
15131 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
15132 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
15133 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15134 - Demote a warn that was caused by libevent delays to info if
15135 netflow padding is less than 4.5 seconds late, or to notice
15136 if it is more (4.5 seconds is the amount of time that a netflow
15137 record might be emitted after, if we chose the maximum timeout).
15138 Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15140 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
15141 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
15142 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
15143 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
15144 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
15145 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
15146 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
15150 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
15152 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
15153 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
15155 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
15156 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
15157 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
15161 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
15162 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
15163 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
15164 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
15165 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
15168 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
15171 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15172 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
15173 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
15174 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
15175 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
15176 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
15178 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15179 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
15180 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
15181 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
15183 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15184 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
15185 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
15186 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15188 o Minor features (geoip):
15189 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15192 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15193 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
15194 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
15195 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
15196 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15198 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15199 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
15200 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
15201 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
15202 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15204 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15205 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
15206 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
15207 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
15208 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
15209 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
15210 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
15211 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
15212 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
15215 Changes in version 0.3.1.3-alpha - 2017-06-08
15216 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
15217 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
15218 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
15219 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
15221 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha also includes fixes for several key management bugs
15222 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
15223 bugfixes described below.
15225 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
15226 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
15227 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
15228 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15229 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
15230 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
15231 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
15234 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
15235 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
15236 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
15237 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
15238 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
15239 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
15240 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
15243 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
15244 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
15245 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
15246 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
15247 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
15248 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
15249 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
15250 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15251 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
15252 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
15253 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
15254 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
15255 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
15258 o Major bugfixes (torrc, crash):
15259 - Fix a crash bug when using %include in torrc. Fixes bug 22417;
15260 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
15262 o Minor features (code style):
15263 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
15264 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
15265 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
15267 o Minor features (diagnostic):
15268 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
15269 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
15270 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
15271 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
15273 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15274 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
15275 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
15277 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
15278 - Check for libzstd >= 1.1, because older versions lack the
15279 necessary streaming API. Fixes bug 22413; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15281 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
15282 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
15283 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
15284 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
15285 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
15286 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
15287 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15289 o Minor bugfixes (storage directories):
15290 - Always check for underflows in the cached storage directory usage.
15291 If the usage does underflow, re-calculate it. Also, avoid a
15292 separate underflow when the usage is not known. Fixes bug 22424;
15293 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15295 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
15296 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
15297 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
15301 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
15304 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
15305 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
15306 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
15307 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
15308 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
15310 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
15311 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
15312 bugfixes described below.
15314 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
15315 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15316 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
15317 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
15318 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15319 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
15320 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
15321 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
15324 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15325 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
15326 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
15327 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
15328 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
15329 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
15330 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
15333 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15334 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
15335 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
15336 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
15337 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
15338 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
15339 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
15340 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15341 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
15342 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
15343 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
15344 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
15345 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
15348 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15349 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
15350 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
15353 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15354 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
15355 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
15356 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
15357 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
15359 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15360 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
15361 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
15363 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15364 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
15365 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
15367 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15368 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
15369 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
15370 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
15371 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
15372 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
15373 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15375 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
15377 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
15378 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
15379 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15382 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
15383 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
15384 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
15385 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
15386 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
15387 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
15389 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
15390 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
15391 bugfixes described below.
15393 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
15394 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15395 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
15396 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
15397 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
15400 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15401 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
15402 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
15403 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
15404 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
15405 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
15406 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
15409 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15410 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
15411 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
15412 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
15413 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
15415 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
15416 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
15417 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
15418 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
15419 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
15420 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
15421 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
15423 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
15424 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
15425 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
15426 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
15427 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
15429 o Minor features (geoip):
15430 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15433 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
15434 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
15435 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
15436 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15438 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15439 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
15440 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
15442 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
15443 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
15444 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
15445 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
15446 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
15449 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
15450 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
15451 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
15452 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
15453 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15455 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
15456 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
15457 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
15458 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
15459 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
15460 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
15462 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
15463 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
15464 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
15465 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
15468 o Minor features (geoip):
15469 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15472 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15473 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
15474 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
15475 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
15476 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
15478 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15479 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
15480 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
15482 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
15483 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
15484 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
15485 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
15486 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
15487 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
15489 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
15490 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
15491 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
15492 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
15495 o Minor features (geoip):
15496 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15499 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15500 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
15501 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
15504 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
15505 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
15506 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
15507 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
15508 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
15509 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
15511 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
15512 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
15513 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
15514 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
15517 o Minor features (geoip):
15518 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15521 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15522 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
15523 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
15525 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
15526 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
15527 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
15528 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
15529 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
15530 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
15532 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
15533 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
15534 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
15535 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
15538 o Minor features (geoip):
15539 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15542 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15543 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
15544 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
15546 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
15547 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
15548 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
15549 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
15550 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
15551 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
15553 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
15554 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
15555 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
15556 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
15559 o Minor features (geoip):
15560 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15563 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15564 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
15565 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
15568 Changes in version 0.3.1.2-alpha - 2017-05-26
15569 Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
15570 fixes a few bugs found while testing 0.3.1.1-alpha, including a
15571 memory corruption bug that affected relay stability.
15573 o Major bugfixes (crash, relay):
15574 - Fix a memory-corruption bug in relays that set MyFamily.
15575 Previously, they would double-free MyFamily elements when making
15576 the next descriptor or when changing their configuration. Fixes
15577 bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15579 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15580 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
15581 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
15584 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority):
15585 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
15586 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
15587 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15590 Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-05-22
15591 Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
15592 reduces the bandwidth usage for Tor's directory protocol, adds some
15593 basic padding to resist netflow-based traffic analysis and to serve as
15594 the basis of other padding in the future, and adds rust support to the
15597 It also contains numerous other small features and improvements to
15598 security, correctness, and performance.
15600 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.7.
15602 o Major features (directory protocol):
15603 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
15604 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
15605 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
15606 now request these documents when available. When both client and
15607 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
15608 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
15609 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
15610 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
15611 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
15612 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
15613 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
15614 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
15615 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
15616 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
15617 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
15618 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
15619 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
15621 o Major features (experimental):
15622 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
15623 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
15624 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
15625 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
15626 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
15627 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
15628 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
15630 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
15631 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
15632 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
15633 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
15634 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
15635 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
15638 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
15639 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
15640 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
15641 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
15642 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
15643 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
15644 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
15645 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
15646 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
15647 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
15648 multiples of 10000.
15650 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
15651 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
15652 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
15653 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
15654 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
15655 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
15656 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
15657 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
15658 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
15659 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
15660 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
15661 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
15662 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
15663 Otherwise it is at info.
15665 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
15666 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
15667 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
15668 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
15670 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
15671 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
15672 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15673 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
15675 o Minor features (security, windows):
15676 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
15677 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
15678 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
15679 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
15680 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
15682 o Minor features (config options):
15683 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
15684 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
15685 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
15686 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
15687 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
15688 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
15689 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
15690 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
15692 o Minor features (controller):
15693 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
15694 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
15696 o Minor features (defaults):
15697 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
15698 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
15699 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
15700 can. Closes ticket 21407.
15701 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
15702 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
15703 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
15704 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
15705 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
15706 Closes ticket 21641.
15708 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
15709 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
15710 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
15711 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
15712 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
15713 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
15714 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
15716 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
15717 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
15718 introduction points than specified in
15719 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
15720 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
15721 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
15722 21594; closes ticket 21622.
15723 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
15724 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
15725 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
15726 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
15728 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15729 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
15730 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
15731 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
15732 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
15733 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
15734 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
15735 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
15736 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
15737 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
15739 o Minor features (logging):
15740 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
15741 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
15742 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
15743 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
15746 o Minor features (performance):
15747 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
15748 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
15750 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
15751 speed some controller functions.
15753 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
15754 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
15755 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
15756 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
15758 o Minor features (safety):
15759 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
15760 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
15761 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
15764 o Minor features (testing):
15765 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
15766 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
15767 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
15768 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
15769 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
15770 on. Closes ticket 21439.
15771 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
15772 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
15773 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
15774 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
15775 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
15776 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
15777 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
15778 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
15779 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
15780 21507. Partially implements 21470.
15782 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
15783 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
15784 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
15785 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
15787 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
15788 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
15789 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
15790 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
15793 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
15794 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
15795 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
15797 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
15798 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
15799 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
15800 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
15801 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
15802 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
15803 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
15804 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
15805 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
15806 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
15807 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
15808 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
15809 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
15810 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
15812 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15813 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
15814 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15815 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
15816 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
15817 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
15818 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
15819 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15821 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
15822 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
15823 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
15824 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
15825 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
15826 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
15827 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
15829 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
15830 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
15831 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
15832 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
15833 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
15835 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
15836 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
15837 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
15838 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
15839 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
15840 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15841 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
15842 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15843 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
15844 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
15845 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15847 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
15848 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
15849 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
15850 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15851 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
15852 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
15853 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15855 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
15856 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
15857 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
15859 o Minor bugfixes (protocol, logging):
15860 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
15861 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
15862 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
15863 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
15865 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15866 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
15867 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
15868 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15869 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
15870 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
15871 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
15872 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
15873 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
15874 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
15876 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
15877 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
15878 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
15879 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
15880 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15882 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
15883 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
15884 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15886 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15887 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
15888 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
15889 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
15890 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
15891 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
15892 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
15893 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
15894 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
15895 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
15896 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
15897 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
15899 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
15900 Resolves ticket 22213.
15901 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
15902 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
15903 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
15904 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
15905 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
15906 types. Closes ticket 21651.
15907 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
15908 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
15911 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
15912 Closes ticket 21873.
15913 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
15914 Closes ticket 21151.
15915 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
15916 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
15918 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
15919 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15920 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
15921 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
15923 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
15924 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
15925 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
15926 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
15927 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
15928 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
15929 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
15930 default behavior is now unavailable.
15931 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
15932 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
15933 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
15934 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
15935 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
15936 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
15937 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
15939 o Removed features (tools):
15940 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
15941 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
15942 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
15943 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
15944 required. Closes ticket 21842.
15947 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
15948 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
15949 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
15950 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
15951 clients are not affected.
15953 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
15954 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
15955 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
15956 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
15957 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
15958 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15961 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15964 o Minor features (future-proofing):
15965 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
15966 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
15967 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
15968 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
15969 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
15970 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
15972 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15973 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
15974 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
15975 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
15976 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
15980 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
15981 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
15983 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
15984 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
15985 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
15986 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
15987 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
15988 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
15991 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
15992 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
15994 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
15995 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
15996 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
15997 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
15998 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
16000 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes
16001 since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
16003 o Minor features (geoip):
16004 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16007 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
16008 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
16009 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
16010 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16012 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
16013 - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
16014 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
16015 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16018 Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05
16019 Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the
16020 0.3.0 release series.
16022 This is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series, and has
16023 much fewer changes than the first. If we find no new bugs or
16024 regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release will be nearly
16027 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
16028 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
16029 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
16030 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
16032 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
16033 - Fix a guard selection bug where Tor would refuse to bootstrap in
16034 some cases if the user swapped a bridge for another bridge in
16035 their configuration file. Fixes bug 21771; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16036 Reported by "torvlnt33r".
16038 o Minor features (geoip):
16039 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16042 o Minor bugfix (compilation):
16043 - Fix a warning when compiling hs_service.c. Previously, it had no
16044 exported symbols when compiled for libor.a, resulting in a
16045 compilation warning from clang. Fixes bug 21825; bugfix
16048 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16049 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
16050 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
16051 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
16052 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
16053 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
16054 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
16055 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
16057 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
16058 - Fix a memory leak when using GETCONF on a port option. Fixes bug
16059 21682; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
16061 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16062 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
16063 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
16066 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
16067 - Run the entry_guard_parse_from_state_full() test with the time set
16068 to a specific date. (The guard state that this test was parsing
16069 contained guards that had expired since the test was first
16070 written.) Fixes bug 21799; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16073 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
16074 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
16075 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
16079 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
16080 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
16081 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
16082 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
16083 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
16086 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
16087 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
16088 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
16090 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
16091 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
16092 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
16093 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
16094 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
16095 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
16096 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
16098 o Minor features (geoip):
16099 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16103 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
16104 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
16105 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
16106 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
16109 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
16110 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
16111 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
16113 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
16114 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
16116 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
16117 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
16118 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
16120 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
16121 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
16122 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
16125 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
16126 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
16127 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
16128 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
16129 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
16130 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
16131 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
16132 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
16133 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
16135 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
16136 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
16137 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
16138 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
16139 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16140 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
16141 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
16142 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
16143 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
16144 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
16145 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
16146 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
16147 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
16149 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16150 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
16151 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
16152 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
16153 Reported by Guido Vranken.
16155 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16156 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
16157 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16159 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
16160 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
16161 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
16162 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
16163 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
16164 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
16165 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
16168 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
16169 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
16170 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
16171 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
16172 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
16173 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
16174 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
16176 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
16177 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
16178 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
16179 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
16182 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16183 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
16184 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
16185 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
16187 o Minor features (geoip):
16188 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16192 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
16193 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
16194 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
16195 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
16198 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
16199 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
16200 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
16202 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
16203 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
16205 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
16206 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
16207 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
16209 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
16210 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
16211 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
16214 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
16215 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
16216 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
16217 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
16218 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
16219 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
16220 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
16221 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
16222 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
16224 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
16225 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
16226 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
16227 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
16228 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
16229 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
16230 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
16231 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
16232 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
16234 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
16235 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
16236 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
16237 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
16238 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16240 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
16241 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
16242 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
16243 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
16244 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
16247 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16248 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
16249 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
16250 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
16251 Reported by Guido Vranken.
16253 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16254 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
16255 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16257 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
16258 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
16259 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
16260 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
16261 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
16262 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
16265 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
16266 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
16267 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
16268 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
16269 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
16270 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
16271 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
16274 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
16275 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
16276 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
16277 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
16278 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
16279 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
16280 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
16282 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
16283 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
16284 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
16285 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
16288 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16289 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
16290 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
16291 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
16293 o Minor features (geoip):
16294 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16297 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
16298 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
16299 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
16302 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
16303 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
16304 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
16305 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
16308 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
16309 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
16310 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
16312 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
16313 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
16315 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
16316 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
16317 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
16319 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
16320 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
16321 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
16324 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
16325 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
16326 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
16327 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
16328 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
16329 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
16330 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
16331 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
16332 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
16334 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
16335 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
16336 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
16337 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
16338 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
16339 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
16340 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
16341 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
16342 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
16344 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
16345 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
16346 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
16347 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
16348 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16350 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
16351 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
16352 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
16353 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
16354 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
16357 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16358 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
16359 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
16360 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
16361 Reported by Guido Vranken.
16363 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16364 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
16365 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16367 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
16368 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
16369 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
16370 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
16371 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
16372 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
16375 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
16376 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
16377 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
16378 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
16379 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
16380 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
16381 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
16384 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
16385 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
16386 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
16387 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
16388 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
16389 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
16390 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
16392 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
16393 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
16394 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
16395 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
16398 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16399 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
16400 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
16401 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
16403 o Minor features (geoip):
16404 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16407 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
16408 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
16409 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
16411 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
16412 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
16413 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
16414 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
16415 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
16416 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
16418 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
16419 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
16420 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
16424 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
16425 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
16426 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
16427 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
16430 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
16431 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
16432 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
16434 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
16435 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
16437 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
16438 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
16439 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
16441 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
16442 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
16443 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
16446 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
16447 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
16448 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
16449 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
16450 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
16451 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
16452 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
16453 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
16454 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
16456 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
16457 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
16458 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
16459 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
16460 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
16461 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
16462 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
16463 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
16464 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
16466 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
16467 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
16468 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
16469 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
16470 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
16473 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16474 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
16475 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
16476 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
16477 Reported by Guido Vranken.
16479 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16480 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
16481 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16483 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
16484 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
16485 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
16486 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
16487 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
16488 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
16491 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
16492 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
16493 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
16494 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
16495 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
16496 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
16497 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
16500 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
16501 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
16502 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
16503 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
16504 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
16505 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
16506 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
16508 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
16509 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
16510 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
16511 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
16514 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16515 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
16516 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
16517 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
16519 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
16520 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
16521 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
16522 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
16524 o Minor features (geoip):
16525 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16528 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
16529 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
16530 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
16532 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
16533 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
16534 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
16538 Changes in version 0.3.0.4-rc - 2017-03-01
16539 Tor 0.3.0.4-rc fixes some remaining bugs, large and small, in the
16540 0.3.0 release series, and introduces a few reliability features to
16541 keep them from coming back.
16543 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series. If we
16544 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release
16545 will be nearly identical to it.
16547 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
16548 - When the same bridge is configured multiple times with the same
16549 identity, but at different address:port combinations, treat those
16550 bridge instances as separate guards. This fix restores the ability
16551 of clients to configure the same bridge with multiple pluggable
16552 transports. Fixes bug 21027; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16554 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory v3):
16555 - Stop crashing on a failed v3 hidden service descriptor lookup
16556 failure. Fixes bug 21471; bugfixes on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16558 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
16559 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
16560 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
16561 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
16562 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
16563 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
16564 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
16565 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
16566 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
16567 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
16568 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
16569 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
16570 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
16571 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
16572 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
16574 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
16575 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
16576 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
16578 o Minor features (directory authorities):
16579 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
16580 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
16582 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
16583 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
16584 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16585 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
16586 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
16587 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
16588 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
16590 o Minor features (geoip):
16591 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16594 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
16595 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
16596 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
16599 o Minor features (testing):
16600 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
16601 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
16602 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
16604 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
16605 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
16606 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
16608 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
16609 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
16610 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
16611 - Remove a redundant check for the UseEntryGuards option from the
16612 options_transition_affects_guards() function. Fixes bug 21492;
16613 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16615 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
16616 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
16617 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
16618 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16619 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
16620 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
16621 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
16624 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
16625 - Don't warn about a missing guard state on timeout-measurement
16626 circuits: they aren't supposed to be using guards. Fixes an
16627 instance of bug 21007; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16628 - Silence a BUG() warning when attempting to use a guard whose
16629 descriptor we don't know, and make this scenario less likely to
16630 happen. Fixes bug 21415; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16632 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
16633 - Pass correct buffer length when encoding legacy ESTABLISH_INTRO
16634 cells. Previously, we were using sizeof() on a pointer, instead of
16635 the real destination buffer. Fortunately, that value was only used
16636 to double-check that there was enough room--which was already
16637 enforced elsewhere. Fixes bug 21553; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16639 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16640 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
16641 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch
16643 - Rename "make fuzz" to "make test-fuzz-corpora", since it doesn't
16644 actually fuzz anything. Fixes bug 21447; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
16645 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
16646 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
16647 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16650 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
16653 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
16654 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
16655 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
16656 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
16658 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
16659 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
16660 least January of 2020.
16662 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
16663 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
16664 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
16665 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
16668 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
16669 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
16670 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
16671 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
16672 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
16673 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
16674 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16676 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
16677 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
16678 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
16679 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
16680 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
16681 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
16682 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
16684 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
16685 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
16686 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
16688 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
16689 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
16690 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16692 o Minor features (geoip):
16693 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16696 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
16697 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
16698 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
16700 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
16701 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
16703 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
16704 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
16705 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
16707 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
16708 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
16709 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
16710 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
16711 Patch by "junglefowl".
16714 Changes in version 0.3.0.3-alpha - 2017-02-03
16715 Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha fixes a few significant bugs introduced over the
16716 0.3.0.x development series, including some that could cause
16717 authorities to behave badly. There is also a fix for a longstanding
16718 bug that could prevent IPv6 exits from working. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha also
16719 includes some smaller features and bugfixes.
16721 The Tor 0.3.0.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no additional
16722 features will be considered for inclusion in 0.3.0.x. We suspect that
16723 some bugs will probably remain, however, and we encourage people to
16726 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
16727 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
16728 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
16729 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
16731 - When deciding whether we have just found a router to be reachable,
16732 do not penalize it for not having performed an Ed25519 link
16733 handshake if it does not claim to support an Ed25519 handshake.
16734 Previously, we would treat such relays as non-running. Fixes bug
16735 21107; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16737 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
16738 - Stop trying to build circuits through entry guards for which we
16739 have no descriptor. Also, stop crashing in the case that we *do*
16740 accidentally try to build a circuit in such a state. Fixes bug
16741 21242; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16743 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
16744 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
16745 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
16746 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
16747 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
16748 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
16749 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16751 o Minor feature (client):
16752 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
16753 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
16755 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
16756 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
16757 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
16758 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
16760 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
16761 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
16762 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
16763 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
16764 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
16766 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
16767 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
16768 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
16769 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
16770 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
16771 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
16772 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
16773 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
16774 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
16775 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
16777 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
16778 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
16779 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
16781 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
16782 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
16784 o Minor features (relay):
16785 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
16786 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
16787 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
16788 Written by Michael Sonntag.
16790 o Minor bugfix (logging):
16791 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
16792 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
16793 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
16794 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
16797 o Minor bugfixes (client):
16798 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
16799 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
16800 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16802 o Minor bugfixes (client, entry guards):
16803 - Fix a bug warning (with backtrace) when we fail a channel that
16804 circuits to fallback directories on it. Fixes bug 21128; bugfix
16806 - Fix a spurious bug warning (with backtrace) when removing an
16807 expired entry guard. Fixes bug 21129; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16808 - Fix a bug of the new guard algorithm where tor could stall for up
16809 to 10 minutes before retrying a guard after a long period of no
16810 network. Fixes bug 21052; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16811 - Do not try to build circuits until we have descriptors for our
16812 primary entry guards. Related to fix for bug 21242.
16814 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
16815 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
16816 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
16817 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
16818 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
16819 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
16820 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
16823 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16824 - Restore the (deprecated) DROPGUARDS controller command. Fixes bug
16825 20824; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16827 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
16828 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
16829 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
16830 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
16831 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16832 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
16833 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
16834 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
16836 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
16837 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
16838 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16840 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16841 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
16842 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
16843 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
16845 - When mapping a file of length greater than SIZE_MAX, do not
16846 silently truncate its contents. This issue could occur on 32 bit
16847 systems with large file support and files which are larger than 4
16848 GB. Fixes bug 21134; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16850 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
16851 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
16852 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
16853 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
16854 Patch by "junglefowl".
16856 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
16857 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
16858 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
16862 Changes in version 0.3.0.2-alpha - 2017-01-23
16863 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
16864 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
16865 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
16866 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
16867 version should upgrade.
16869 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha also improves how exit relays and clients handle DNS
16870 time-to-live values, makes directory authorities enforce the 1-to-1
16871 mapping of relay RSA identity keys to ED25519 identity keys, fixes a
16872 client-side onion service reachability bug, does better at selecting
16873 the set of fallback directories, and more.
16875 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
16876 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
16877 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like
16878 others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it on by
16879 default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a
16880 denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on
16883 o Major features (security):
16884 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
16885 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
16886 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
16887 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
16888 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
16889 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
16891 o Major features (directory authority, security):
16892 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
16893 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
16894 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
16896 o Major bugfixes (client, guard, crash):
16897 - In circuit_get_global_origin_list(), return the actual list of
16898 origin circuits. The previous version of this code returned the
16899 list of all the circuits, and could have caused strange bugs,
16900 including possible crashes. Fixes bug 21118; bugfix
16903 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
16904 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
16905 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
16906 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
16907 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
16908 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
16909 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
16910 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
16911 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
16912 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
16913 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16915 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
16916 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
16917 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16919 o Minor features (controller):
16920 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
16921 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
16923 o Minor features (entry guards):
16924 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
16925 break regression tests.
16926 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
16927 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
16929 o Minor features (fallback directories):
16930 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
16932 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
16933 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
16934 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
16935 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
16936 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
16937 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
16938 Closes ticket 20539.
16939 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
16941 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
16942 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
16943 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
16944 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
16945 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
16947 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
16948 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
16949 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
16950 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
16951 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
16952 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
16953 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
16954 Closes ticket 20822.
16955 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
16956 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
16958 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
16959 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16962 o Minor features (next-gen onion service directories):
16963 - Remove the "EnableOnionServicesV3" consensus parameter that we
16964 introduced in 0.3.0.1-alpha: relays are now always willing to act
16965 as v3 onion service directories. Resolves ticket 19899.
16967 o Minor features (linting):
16968 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
16969 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
16971 o Minor features (logging):
16972 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
16973 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
16975 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
16976 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
16977 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
16978 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
16979 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
16980 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
16982 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
16983 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
16984 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
16985 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
16987 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16988 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
16989 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
16992 o Minor bugfixes (client, guards):
16993 - Fix bug where Tor would think that there are circuits waiting for
16994 better guards even though those circuits have been freed. Fixes
16995 bug 21142; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16997 o Minor bugfixes (config):
16998 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
16999 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
17000 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
17001 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
17003 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17004 - Make the GETINFO interface for inquiring about entry guards
17005 support the new guards backend. Fixes bug 20823; bugfix
17008 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
17009 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
17010 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
17011 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
17012 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17014 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
17015 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
17016 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
17018 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
17019 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
17020 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17021 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
17022 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
17023 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
17024 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
17025 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
17026 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
17028 o Minor bugfixes (guards, bootstrapping):
17029 - When connecting to a directory guard during bootstrap, do not mark
17030 the guard as successful until we receive a good-looking directory
17031 response from it. Fixes bug 20974; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17033 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
17034 - Fix the config reload pruning of old vs new services so it
17035 actually works when both ephemeral and non-ephemeral services are
17036 configured. Fixes bug 21054; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17037 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
17038 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17040 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
17041 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
17042 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
17043 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
17044 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
17045 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
17046 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
17047 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
17049 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
17050 - Fix a memory leak when configuring hidden services. Fixes bug
17051 20987; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17053 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
17054 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
17055 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
17056 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
17058 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
17059 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17061 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
17062 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
17063 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
17064 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
17065 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
17067 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17068 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
17069 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17071 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
17072 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
17073 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
17074 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
17075 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
17077 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17078 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
17079 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
17081 o Documentation (formatting):
17082 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
17083 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
17085 o Documentation (man page):
17086 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
17087 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
17090 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
17091 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
17092 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
17093 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
17094 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
17095 version should upgrade.
17097 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
17098 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
17100 o Major bugfixes (security):
17101 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
17102 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
17103 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
17104 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
17105 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
17106 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17108 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
17109 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
17110 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
17111 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
17112 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
17113 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
17114 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
17115 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
17116 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
17117 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
17118 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17120 o Minor features (geoip):
17121 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17124 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17125 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
17126 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
17127 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
17129 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
17130 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17133 Changes in version 0.3.0.1-alpha - 2016-12-19
17134 Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.3.0 development
17135 series. It strengthens Tor's link and circuit handshakes by
17136 identifying relays by their Ed25519 keys, improves the algorithm that
17137 clients use to choose and maintain their list of guards, and includes
17138 additional backend support for the next-generation hidden service
17139 design. It also contains numerous other small features and
17140 improvements to security, correctness, and performance.
17142 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.8.
17144 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
17145 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
17146 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
17147 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
17148 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
17151 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
17152 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
17153 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
17154 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
17155 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
17156 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
17157 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
17158 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
17161 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
17162 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
17163 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
17164 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
17165 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
17167 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
17168 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
17169 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
17170 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
17171 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
17172 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
17173 15056; part of proposal 220.
17174 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
17175 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
17176 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
17177 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
17178 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
17180 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
17181 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
17182 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
17183 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
17184 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17186 o Minor features (controller):
17187 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
17188 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
17191 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
17192 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
17193 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
17196 o Minor features (directory authority):
17197 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
17198 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
17199 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
17200 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
17201 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
17203 o Minor features (directory cache):
17204 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
17205 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
17208 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
17209 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
17210 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
17211 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
17213 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
17214 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
17215 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
17216 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
17218 o Minor features (infrastructure):
17219 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
17220 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
17222 o Minor bugfixes (client):
17223 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
17224 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
17225 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
17227 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
17228 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
17229 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
17230 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
17231 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
17232 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
17234 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
17235 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
17236 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
17237 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
17238 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
17240 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
17241 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
17242 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
17243 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
17244 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
17246 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
17247 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
17248 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
17249 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
17250 on all recent tor versions.
17251 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
17252 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
17253 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
17254 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
17256 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
17257 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
17258 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17260 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17261 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
17262 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
17263 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
17266 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
17267 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
17268 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
17271 o Minor bugfixes (util):
17272 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
17273 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
17274 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
17275 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
17277 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
17278 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
17279 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
17280 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
17282 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17283 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
17284 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
17285 Closes ticket 19858.
17286 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
17287 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
17288 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
17289 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
17290 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
17291 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
17292 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
17293 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
17294 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
17295 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
17296 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
17297 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
17298 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
17299 redundant with the similar structures used in the
17300 channel abstraction.
17301 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
17302 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
17303 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
17304 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
17305 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
17306 replaced with code automatically generated by the
17310 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
17311 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17312 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
17313 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
17315 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
17316 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix
17318 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
17319 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
17320 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
17321 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
17322 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
17325 o Removed features:
17326 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
17327 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
17328 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
17330 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
17331 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
17332 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
17335 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
17336 from "overcaffeinated".
17337 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
17338 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
17339 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
17340 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
17341 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
17345 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
17346 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
17347 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
17348 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
17349 become available for their systems.
17351 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
17354 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
17355 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
17357 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
17358 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
17359 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
17360 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
17361 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
17362 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
17363 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
17364 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
17365 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
17367 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
17368 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
17369 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
17370 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
17371 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
17373 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
17374 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17378 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
17379 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
17381 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
17382 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
17383 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
17384 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
17385 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
17386 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
17387 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
17388 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
17390 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
17392 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
17393 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
17394 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
17395 become available for their systems.
17397 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes
17398 since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
17400 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security):
17401 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
17402 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
17403 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
17404 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
17405 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
17406 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
17407 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
17408 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
17410 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
17411 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
17412 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
17413 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
17414 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
17417 Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
17418 Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc,
17419 including a few that had prevented tests from passing on
17422 o Minor features (geoip):
17423 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17426 o Minor bugfix (build):
17427 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
17428 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
17429 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17431 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
17432 - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were
17433 looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for
17434 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
17436 o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling):
17437 - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose
17438 delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
17440 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17441 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
17442 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
17445 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
17446 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
17447 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17448 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
17449 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
17450 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
17452 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17453 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
17454 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
17455 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17457 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17458 - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac
17459 Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
17461 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
17462 - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part
17463 of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
17464 - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons
17465 between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10
17466 us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's
17467 clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17468 - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop
17469 ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone.
17470 Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
17473 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
17474 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
17475 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
17476 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
17479 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17480 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
17481 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
17482 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
17483 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
17484 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
17487 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
17488 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
17489 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
17492 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
17493 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
17494 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
17495 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
17497 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
17498 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
17499 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
17500 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
17503 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
17504 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
17505 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
17506 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
17509 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
17510 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
17511 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
17514 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
17515 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
17516 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
17518 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
17519 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
17520 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
17522 o Minor features (geoip):
17523 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17526 Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02
17527 Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha
17528 version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we
17529 encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are
17530 found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable.
17532 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
17533 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
17534 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
17535 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
17536 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
17537 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17539 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
17540 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
17541 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
17543 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17544 - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden
17545 services and single onion services when first starting tor.
17546 Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been
17547 used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug
17548 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf.
17550 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17551 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
17552 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
17554 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
17555 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
17557 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
17558 - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately
17559 created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages
17560 are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits
17561 hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on
17562 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly".
17564 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
17565 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
17566 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
17570 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
17571 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
17574 Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08
17575 Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha
17576 version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage
17577 everyone to test this release.
17579 o Major bugfixes (client performance):
17580 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
17581 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
17582 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
17585 o Major bugfixes (client reliability):
17586 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
17587 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
17588 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
17591 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
17592 - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on
17593 downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since
17594 each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't
17595 hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17596 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
17597 download, stop waiting for certificates.
17598 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
17599 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
17600 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
17602 - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since
17603 we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we
17604 must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part
17605 of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17606 - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes
17607 another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17608 - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times
17609 after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this
17610 will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17611 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
17612 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
17613 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
17615 o Minor features (geoip):
17616 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17619 o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling):
17620 - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a
17621 reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that
17622 exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we
17623 would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593;
17624 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17626 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging):
17627 - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead,
17628 assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is
17629 available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
17630 - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname
17631 lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17633 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17634 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
17635 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
17636 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
17639 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17640 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
17641 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
17642 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
17643 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
17644 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17645 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
17646 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
17648 o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap):
17649 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
17650 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17652 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
17653 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
17654 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
17655 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
17656 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17657 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
17658 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
17659 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17661 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
17662 - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a
17663 directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix
17666 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17667 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
17668 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17671 - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to
17672 also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
17673 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
17674 tickets 19287 and 19290.
17677 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
17678 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
17679 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
17680 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
17681 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
17684 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
17685 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
17686 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
17687 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
17688 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17689 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17690 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
17691 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
17692 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
17694 o Minor features (geoip):
17695 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17699 Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
17700 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor
17701 that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden
17702 service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this
17703 version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions
17706 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to
17707 previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to
17708 future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug
17709 fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly,
17710 and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be
17711 the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will
17712 be a release candidate.
17714 o Major features (security fixes):
17715 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
17716 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
17717 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
17718 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17719 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17720 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
17721 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
17722 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
17724 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
17725 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
17726 subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
17727 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
17728 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
17729 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
17730 Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
17731 - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
17732 Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
17733 a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
17734 should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
17735 change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
17736 exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
17737 releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
17740 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
17741 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
17742 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
17744 o Minor features (client, directory):
17745 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
17746 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
17747 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
17750 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
17751 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
17754 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
17755 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
17756 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
17759 o Minor features (geoip):
17760 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17763 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
17764 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
17765 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
17766 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
17767 domain socket paths to contain spaces.
17769 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
17770 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
17771 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
17772 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
17775 o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
17776 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
17777 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
17778 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
17779 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
17781 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
17782 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
17783 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
17786 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
17787 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
17788 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
17789 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
17791 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
17792 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
17793 handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
17794 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
17796 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
17797 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
17798 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
17799 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
17802 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
17803 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
17804 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
17808 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
17809 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
17811 o Required libraries:
17812 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
17813 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
17814 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
17817 Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
17818 Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make
17819 high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism
17820 without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It
17821 also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the
17822 strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and
17823 resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8
17824 series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade.
17826 o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8):
17827 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
17828 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
17829 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
17830 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
17831 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
17833 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8):
17834 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
17835 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
17836 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
17837 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
17840 o Major features (circuit building, security):
17841 - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
17842 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
17843 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
17845 - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
17846 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
17848 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
17849 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
17850 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
17851 every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
17852 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
17853 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
17854 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
17855 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
17856 hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
17857 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
17858 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
17860 o Major features (resource management):
17861 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
17862 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
17863 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
17864 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
17865 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
17866 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
17868 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
17869 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
17870 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
17871 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
17873 o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
17874 - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would
17875 prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from
17876 rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17878 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
17879 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
17880 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
17881 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
17882 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
17883 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
17885 o Minor features (security, TLS):
17886 - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
17887 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
17888 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
17889 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
17891 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
17892 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
17893 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
17894 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
17896 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8):
17897 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17900 o Minor feature (port flags):
17901 - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
17902 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
17903 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
17904 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
17905 18693; patch by "teor".
17907 o Minor features (directory authority):
17908 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
17909 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
17910 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
17912 o Minor features (testing):
17913 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
17914 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
17915 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
17916 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
17918 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
17919 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
17920 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
17921 with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
17922 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
17923 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
17924 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
17925 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
17926 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
17928 o Minor features (Tor2web):
17929 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
17930 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
17931 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
17933 o Minor features (unit tests):
17934 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
17935 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
17936 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
17937 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
17938 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
17939 (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
17940 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
17941 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
17943 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
17944 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
17945 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
17946 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
17947 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
17948 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
17949 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
17950 assertion as a test failure.
17952 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
17953 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
17954 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
17955 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
17956 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
17957 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
17959 o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
17960 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
17961 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
17962 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
17963 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
17964 - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers.
17965 Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the
17966 standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the
17967 first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS).
17968 - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC-
17969 compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17970 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
17971 - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings.
17972 They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't
17973 currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads
17974 wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17976 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
17977 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
17978 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
17979 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
17980 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17981 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
17982 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
17985 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
17986 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
17987 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
17988 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
17989 in 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
17990 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
17991 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
17994 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17995 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
17996 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
17997 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
17999 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
18000 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
18001 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
18003 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18004 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
18005 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
18006 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
18007 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
18008 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18010 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18011 - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about
18012 what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were
18013 asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix
18015 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
18016 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
18017 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
18019 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
18020 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
18021 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
18022 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
18023 behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
18024 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
18026 o Minor bugfixes (options):
18027 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
18028 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
18030 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
18031 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
18032 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
18035 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
18036 - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
18037 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
18038 19678. Patch by teor.
18040 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
18041 - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian
18042 architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied
18043 to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data
18044 and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and
18045 REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix
18047 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
18048 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
18052 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
18053 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
18054 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
18055 who select public relays as their bridges.
18057 o Major bugfixes (crash):
18058 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
18059 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
18060 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
18061 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
18062 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18064 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
18065 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
18066 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
18067 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
18068 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
18071 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
18072 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
18073 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
18074 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
18076 o Minor features (geoip):
18077 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18081 Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
18082 Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with
18083 several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important
18084 authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who
18085 sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
18086 encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha.
18088 o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7):
18089 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
18090 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
18092 o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7):
18093 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
18094 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
18095 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
18096 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
18097 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18099 o Major features (user interface):
18100 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
18101 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
18102 this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
18104 o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
18105 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
18106 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
18107 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
18109 o Minor features (config):
18110 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
18111 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
18113 o Minor features (geoip):
18114 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18117 o Minor features (user interface):
18118 - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
18119 list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
18122 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
18123 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
18124 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
18126 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18127 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
18128 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
18130 - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our
18131 ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,
18132 when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.
18133 Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18135 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):
18136 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
18137 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
18140 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):
18141 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
18142 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
18143 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
18145 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18146 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
18147 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
18149 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
18150 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
18151 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
18153 o Deprecated features:
18154 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
18155 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
18156 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
18157 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
18158 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
18159 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
18160 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
18161 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
18162 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
18163 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
18164 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
18165 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
18166 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
18167 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
18168 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
18169 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
18170 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
18171 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
18172 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
18173 and TransListenAddress.
18176 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
18177 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
18180 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
18181 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
18184 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
18185 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
18186 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
18187 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
18188 encouraged to upgrade.
18190 o Directory authority changes:
18191 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
18192 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
18194 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
18195 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
18196 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
18197 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
18198 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
18199 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18201 o Minor features (geoip):
18202 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18205 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18206 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
18207 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
18210 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
18211 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
18212 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
18213 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
18216 Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
18217 Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development
18218 series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler
18219 warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to
18220 hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for
18221 better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to
18222 log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to
18223 security, correctness, and performance.
18225 Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6.
18227 o New system requirements:
18228 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
18229 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
18230 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
18231 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
18232 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
18233 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
18234 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
18235 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
18237 o Major features (build, hardening):
18238 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
18239 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
18240 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
18241 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
18242 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
18243 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
18244 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
18245 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
18246 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
18248 o Major features (compilation):
18249 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
18250 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
18251 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
18252 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
18254 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
18255 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
18256 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
18258 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
18259 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
18260 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
18261 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
18262 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
18263 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
18264 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
18265 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
18267 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
18268 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
18269 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
18270 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
18271 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
18272 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
18273 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
18275 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
18276 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
18277 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
18278 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
18279 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
18280 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
18281 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
18283 o Major bugfixes (hidden service client):
18284 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
18285 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
18286 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
18287 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
18289 o Minor features (build, hardening):
18290 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
18291 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
18292 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
18293 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
18294 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
18295 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
18296 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
18297 Closes ticket 18895.
18299 o Minor features (code safety):
18300 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
18301 give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
18304 o Minor features (controller):
18305 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
18306 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
18307 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
18308 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
18309 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
18310 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
18311 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
18312 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
18314 o Minor features (directory authority):
18315 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
18316 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
18317 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
18318 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
18319 Implements ticket 18624.
18320 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
18321 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
18322 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
18325 o Minor features (hidden service):
18326 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
18327 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
18328 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
18331 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
18332 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
18333 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
18334 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
18335 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
18336 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
18337 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
18338 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
18339 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
18340 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
18341 Closes ticket 18365.
18343 o Minor features (logging):
18344 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
18345 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
18346 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
18347 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
18348 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
18349 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
18350 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
18351 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
18352 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
18353 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
18355 o Minor features (performance):
18356 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
18357 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
18358 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
18359 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
18360 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
18361 Closes ticket 18815.
18363 o Minor features (relay, usability):
18364 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
18365 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
18366 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
18367 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
18370 o Minor features (testing):
18371 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
18372 part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18373 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
18374 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
18375 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
18376 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
18377 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
18378 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
18381 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
18382 - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
18383 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
18384 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
18385 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18387 o Minor bugfixes (build):
18388 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
18389 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
18390 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
18391 patch from "cypherpunks".
18393 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
18394 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
18395 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18397 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18398 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
18399 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
18400 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18402 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
18403 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
18404 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
18405 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
18406 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
18407 the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
18408 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
18409 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18411 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
18412 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
18413 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
18414 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
18415 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
18416 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
18417 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
18419 o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service):
18420 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
18421 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
18424 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
18425 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
18426 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
18428 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
18429 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
18430 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
18433 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
18434 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
18435 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
18436 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
18439 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18440 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
18441 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
18443 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
18444 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
18445 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
18448 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18449 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
18450 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
18451 - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
18452 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
18453 generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
18454 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
18455 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
18456 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
18459 o Minor bugfixes (time):
18460 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
18461 bugfix on all released tor versions.
18462 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
18463 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
18464 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
18465 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
18467 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
18468 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
18469 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
18470 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
18471 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
18473 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
18474 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18476 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18477 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
18479 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
18480 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
18481 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
18482 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
18485 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
18486 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
18488 o Removed features:
18489 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
18490 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
18491 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
18492 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
18493 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
18494 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch
18495 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
18498 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
18499 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
18500 command-line options to enable them.
18501 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
18502 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
18505 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
18507 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
18509 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
18510 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
18511 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
18512 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
18513 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
18514 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
18516 Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc:
18518 o Minor features (geoip):
18519 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18522 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18523 - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char
18524 is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18526 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
18527 - Remove 1 fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out,
18528 leaving 89 of the 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
18529 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes ticket 19782; patch by teor.
18531 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18532 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
18533 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
18534 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
18535 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
18536 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
18537 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
18538 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18541 Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07
18542 Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8
18543 series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable
18544 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes
18545 against previous versions.
18547 o Directory authority changes:
18548 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
18550 o Major bugfixes (heartbeat):
18551 - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic
18552 "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on
18553 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku".
18555 o Minor features (build):
18556 - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
18557 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
18558 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
18559 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
18560 Patch from intrigeri.
18562 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection):
18563 - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible
18564 fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch
18567 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors):
18568 - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This
18569 allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors
18570 from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus
18571 has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix
18574 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18575 - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers
18576 can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and
18577 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
18578 - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard-
18579 coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log
18580 message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
18582 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing):
18583 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
18584 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
18585 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
18587 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
18588 - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after
18589 descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST
18590 control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is
18591 only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is
18592 pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18594 o Fallback directory list:
18595 - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that
18596 explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's
18597 compatible with the stem fallback parser.
18598 - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator
18599 emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile)
18600 fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
18601 - Remove 10 unsuitable fallbacks, leaving 90 of the 100 fallbacks
18602 originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes
18603 ticket 19071; patch by teor.
18606 Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
18607 Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
18608 If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
18609 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
18612 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
18613 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
18614 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
18615 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18617 o Minor features (build):
18618 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
18619 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
18621 o Minor features (geoip):
18622 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18625 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18626 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
18627 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18629 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
18630 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
18631 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
18632 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
18636 Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26
18637 Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over
18638 the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of
18639 directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler
18640 hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on
18643 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
18644 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
18645 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
18646 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
18647 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
18649 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
18650 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
18651 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
18652 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
18653 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
18654 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
18656 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
18657 - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when
18658 the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes
18659 bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18661 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
18662 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
18663 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
18664 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
18665 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
18666 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
18667 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
18669 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
18670 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
18672 - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we
18673 don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809;
18674 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor.
18676 o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
18677 - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way
18678 we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these
18679 decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like
18680 advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not
18681 advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18684 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client):
18685 - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for
18686 IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch
18689 o Major bugfixes (key management):
18690 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
18691 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
18692 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
18693 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
18694 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
18695 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
18698 o Major bugfixes (testing):
18699 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
18700 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
18701 - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668;
18702 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18704 o Minor features (clients):
18705 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
18706 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
18707 ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
18709 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
18710 - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict
18711 fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail
18712 changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors
18713 to the whitelist; and many other minor simplifications and fixes.
18714 Closes tasks 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug 18812 on
18715 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
18716 - Replace the 21 fallbacks generated in January 2016 and included in
18717 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha, with a list of 100 fallbacks generated in March
18718 2016. Closes task 17158; patch by "teor".
18720 o Minor features (geoip):
18721 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18724 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
18725 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
18726 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
18729 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
18730 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
18731 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
18733 o Minor bugfixes (build):
18734 - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
18735 configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix
18737 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
18738 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
18740 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
18741 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
18744 o Minor bugfixes (client):
18745 - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options.
18746 This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of
18747 them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled
18748 anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18749 - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only
18750 clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929;
18751 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18753 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
18754 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
18755 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
18756 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
18757 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18759 o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability):
18760 - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big
18761 Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is
18762 primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18763 - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
18764 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes
18767 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
18768 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
18769 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
18770 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
18771 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
18772 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18774 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18775 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
18776 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
18777 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18778 - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per
18779 second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18780 - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at
18781 PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18783 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
18784 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
18785 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
18786 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
18788 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
18789 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
18790 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
18791 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
18792 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
18793 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
18796 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
18797 - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to
18798 regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix
18800 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
18801 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
18802 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18804 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
18805 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
18806 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
18808 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18809 - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping
18810 DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003;
18811 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
18812 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
18813 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
18814 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18816 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
18817 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
18818 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
18819 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
18822 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
18823 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
18824 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
18825 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
18828 Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
18829 Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous
18830 bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented
18831 authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and
18832 directory support should also be much improved.
18834 o New system requirements:
18835 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
18836 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
18837 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
18838 longer runs with, these versions.
18839 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
18840 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
18841 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
18843 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
18844 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
18845 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
18846 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
18847 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
18849 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
18850 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
18851 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
18852 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
18853 Reported by Guido Vranken.
18855 o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports):
18856 - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow
18857 bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that
18858 ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes
18859 bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
18861 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
18862 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
18863 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
18864 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
18866 o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown):
18867 - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down.
18868 Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18869 - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in
18870 rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18872 o Major bugfixes (crash on startup):
18873 - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was
18874 configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort
18875 "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to
18876 switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string
18877 compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18880 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
18881 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
18882 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
18884 o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
18885 - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
18886 bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line.
18887 Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb,
18890 o Major bugfixes (voting):
18891 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
18892 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
18893 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
18894 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
18896 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
18897 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
18898 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
18899 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18900 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
18901 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
18902 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
18903 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
18904 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
18905 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18907 o Minor features (security, win32):
18908 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
18909 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
18912 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
18913 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
18914 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
18915 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
18917 o Minor features (build):
18918 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
18919 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
18920 Steven Chamberlain.
18922 o Minor features (code hardening):
18923 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
18924 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
18925 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
18928 o Minor features (crypto):
18929 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
18930 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
18933 o Minor features (geoip):
18934 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18937 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
18938 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
18939 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
18940 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
18941 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
18943 o Minor features (IPv6):
18944 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
18945 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
18946 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
18947 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
18948 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
18949 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
18950 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
18952 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18953 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
18954 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
18955 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
18956 while fixing 18548.
18958 o Minor features (robustness):
18959 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
18960 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
18961 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
18963 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
18964 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
18965 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
18966 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
18967 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
18968 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
18969 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
18972 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
18973 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
18974 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
18975 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
18976 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
18978 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
18979 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
18980 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
18981 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
18983 o Minor bugfixes (build):
18984 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
18985 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
18987 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
18988 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
18989 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
18990 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
18991 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
18992 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
18994 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
18995 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
18996 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
18997 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
18998 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19000 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
19001 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
19002 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
19003 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
19006 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
19007 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
19008 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
19010 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
19011 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
19012 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
19013 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
19015 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
19016 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
19017 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
19018 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
19019 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
19020 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19022 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
19023 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
19024 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
19025 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
19027 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
19028 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
19029 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
19030 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
19031 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
19033 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
19034 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
19035 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
19036 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
19037 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
19038 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
19039 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
19040 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
19041 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
19044 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
19045 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
19046 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
19047 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19049 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
19050 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
19051 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
19053 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19054 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
19055 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
19056 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19057 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
19058 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
19059 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19060 - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
19061 setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19063 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19064 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
19065 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
19066 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
19067 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
19068 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
19069 - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level.
19070 Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing
19071 bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
19072 Christian, patch by teor.
19074 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
19075 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
19076 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
19077 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
19079 - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list().
19080 Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf,
19081 patch by "cypherpunks".
19082 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
19084 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
19085 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19087 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
19088 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
19089 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
19090 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
19092 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
19093 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
19094 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
19097 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19098 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
19099 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
19100 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
19101 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
19102 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
19104 o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
19105 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
19106 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
19107 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
19109 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
19110 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
19111 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
19112 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
19114 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19115 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
19116 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
19117 17744. Patch from zerosion.
19118 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
19119 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
19120 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
19121 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
19122 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
19125 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
19126 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
19127 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
19129 o Removed features:
19130 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
19131 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
19132 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
19135 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
19137 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
19138 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
19141 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
19142 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
19143 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
19144 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
19145 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
19147 o Major features (security, Linux):
19148 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
19149 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
19150 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
19151 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
19152 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
19154 o Major features (directory system):
19155 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
19156 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
19157 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
19158 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
19159 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
19160 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
19161 "mikeperry" and "teor".
19162 - Include a trial list of 21 default fallback directories, generated
19163 in January 2016, based on an opt-in survey of suitable relays.
19164 Doing this should make clients bootstrap more quickly and reliably,
19165 and reduce the load on the directory authorities. Closes ticket
19166 15775. Patch by "teor".
19167 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
19168 "gsathya", and "karsten".
19169 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
19170 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
19171 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
19172 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
19173 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
19176 o Major key updates:
19177 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
19178 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
19181 o Minor features (security, clock):
19182 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
19183 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
19184 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
19185 "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
19187 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
19188 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
19189 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
19190 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
19191 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
19192 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19194 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
19195 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
19196 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
19197 Implements ticket 17026.
19198 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
19199 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
19200 Implements feature 17986.
19201 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
19202 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
19203 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
19204 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
19205 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
19206 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
19209 o Minor features (security, RNG):
19210 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
19211 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
19212 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
19213 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
19214 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
19215 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
19216 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
19217 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
19218 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
19219 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
19222 o Minor features (accounting):
19223 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
19224 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
19225 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
19226 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
19228 o Minor features (build):
19229 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
19230 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
19231 patch from "cypherpunks."
19232 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
19233 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
19234 17549, 17921, and 17984.
19236 o Minor features (controller):
19237 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
19238 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
19239 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
19240 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
19241 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
19242 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
19243 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
19244 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
19247 o Minor features (crypto):
19248 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
19250 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
19251 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
19252 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
19253 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
19254 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
19255 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
19256 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
19257 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
19259 o Minor features (directory downloads):
19260 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
19261 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
19262 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
19263 17864; patch by "teor".
19264 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
19265 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
19266 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
19268 o Minor features (geoip):
19269 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19272 o Minor features (IPv6):
19273 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
19274 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
19275 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
19276 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
19277 from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
19278 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
19279 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
19280 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
19281 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
19282 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
19283 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
19285 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
19286 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19287 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
19288 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
19290 o Minor features (logging):
19291 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
19292 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
19293 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
19294 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
19297 o Minor features (portability):
19298 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
19299 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
19301 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
19302 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
19303 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
19304 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
19305 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
19307 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
19308 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
19309 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
19310 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
19311 Resolves ticket 17951.
19313 o Minor features (replay cache):
19314 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
19315 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
19317 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
19318 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
19319 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
19320 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
19321 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
19322 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
19323 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
19324 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
19325 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
19326 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
19327 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
19328 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
19329 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
19330 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
19332 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
19333 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
19334 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
19335 from "unixninja92".
19337 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
19338 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
19339 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
19340 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
19341 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
19342 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
19344 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
19347 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19348 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
19349 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
19350 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19351 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
19352 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
19353 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
19354 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
19356 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
19357 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
19358 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
19359 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
19360 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
19361 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
19362 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
19363 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
19365 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
19366 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
19368 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
19369 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
19370 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19372 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
19373 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
19374 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
19375 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19377 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
19378 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
19379 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19381 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19382 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
19383 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
19385 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19386 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
19387 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
19388 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
19389 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
19391 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
19392 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
19394 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
19395 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
19396 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
19399 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
19400 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
19401 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
19402 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
19403 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
19404 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
19406 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
19407 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
19408 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
19409 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
19410 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
19412 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
19413 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
19414 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
19417 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
19418 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
19419 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
19420 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19421 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
19422 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
19423 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
19424 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
19427 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19428 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
19429 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
19430 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
19431 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
19432 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
19433 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
19434 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
19435 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
19436 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
19438 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
19439 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19441 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19442 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
19443 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
19444 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
19445 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
19446 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
19447 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
19448 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
19449 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
19450 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
19452 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
19453 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
19454 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
19455 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
19457 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
19458 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
19459 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
19460 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
19461 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
19463 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
19464 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
19467 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
19468 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
19469 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
19470 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
19471 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
19472 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
19473 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
19476 o Removed features:
19477 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
19478 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
19479 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
19480 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
19481 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
19484 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
19485 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
19486 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
19487 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
19488 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
19489 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
19490 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
19491 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
19492 portion of ticket 16831.
19493 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
19494 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
19495 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
19497 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
19498 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
19501 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
19502 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
19503 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
19505 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
19506 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
19507 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
19508 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
19509 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
19510 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
19513 o Minor features (geoip):
19514 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19517 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19518 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
19519 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
19520 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
19521 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
19522 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
19524 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
19525 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
19526 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
19527 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
19528 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
19529 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
19530 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
19531 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19532 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
19533 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19536 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
19537 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
19538 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
19539 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
19540 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
19541 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
19542 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
19543 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
19544 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
19545 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
19546 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
19547 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
19548 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
19549 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
19550 that would make him proud.
19552 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
19554 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
19555 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
19556 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
19557 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
19558 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
19559 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
19560 of Tor invoke which others.
19562 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
19565 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
19566 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
19567 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
19568 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
19569 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
19570 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
19571 release will the the official stable release.
19573 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
19574 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
19575 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
19576 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
19577 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
19580 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
19581 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
19582 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
19584 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
19585 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
19586 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
19587 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
19588 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
19589 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
19590 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
19592 o Minor features (geoIP):
19593 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19596 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19597 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
19598 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
19599 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
19600 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19601 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
19602 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
19604 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
19605 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
19606 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
19609 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
19610 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
19611 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
19612 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
19614 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19615 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
19616 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
19617 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
19618 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
19619 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
19620 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
19621 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
19622 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
19623 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
19624 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
19628 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
19629 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
19633 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
19634 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
19635 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
19636 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
19637 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
19639 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
19640 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
19641 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
19642 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
19644 o Major features (security, hidden services):
19645 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
19646 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
19647 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
19648 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
19649 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
19650 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
19651 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
19653 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
19654 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
19655 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
19656 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
19657 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
19658 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
19661 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
19662 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
19663 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
19664 available. Implements ticket 16535.
19665 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
19666 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
19669 o Major features (performance testing):
19670 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
19671 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
19672 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
19674 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
19675 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
19676 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
19677 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
19679 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
19680 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
19681 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
19682 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
19683 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
19684 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
19686 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
19687 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
19689 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
19690 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
19691 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
19692 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
19693 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
19695 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
19696 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
19697 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
19698 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
19699 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
19700 own. Implements feature 15482.
19701 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
19702 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
19704 o Minor features (compilation):
19705 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
19706 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
19707 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
19708 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
19709 which started requiring ECC.
19711 o Minor features (geoip):
19712 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19715 o Minor features (hidden services):
19716 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
19717 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
19718 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
19719 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
19720 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
19721 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
19722 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
19723 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
19725 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
19726 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
19727 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
19730 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
19731 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
19732 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
19733 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
19735 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
19736 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
19737 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
19738 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
19739 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
19741 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
19742 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
19743 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
19744 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
19745 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19746 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
19747 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
19748 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
19749 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
19750 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
19751 Related to ticket 16069.
19752 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
19753 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
19754 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
19755 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
19756 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
19757 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19759 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
19760 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
19761 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19762 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
19763 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
19765 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
19766 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
19767 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19769 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
19770 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
19771 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
19772 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19774 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
19775 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
19776 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
19777 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
19778 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19780 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
19781 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
19782 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
19783 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
19784 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
19785 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
19786 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
19787 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
19788 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
19789 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
19790 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
19793 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
19794 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
19795 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19797 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19798 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
19799 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19800 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
19801 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19803 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
19804 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
19805 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
19806 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
19808 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
19809 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
19810 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
19812 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
19813 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
19814 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
19815 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
19816 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
19817 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
19818 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
19819 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19821 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
19822 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
19823 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
19824 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
19825 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
19827 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
19828 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
19831 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19832 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
19833 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
19834 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
19835 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
19836 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
19837 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
19838 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
19839 function. Closes ticket 16763.
19840 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
19841 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
19842 suite of other microdesc functions.
19843 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
19844 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
19845 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
19846 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
19847 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
19848 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
19849 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
19850 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
19851 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
19852 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
19854 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
19855 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
19857 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
19860 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
19861 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
19862 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
19863 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
19867 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
19868 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
19869 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
19870 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
19871 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
19872 Closes ticket 13338.
19873 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
19874 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
19875 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
19876 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
19877 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
19878 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
19881 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
19882 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
19883 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
19884 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
19885 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
19886 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
19887 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
19889 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
19890 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
19891 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
19892 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
19893 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
19894 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
19895 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
19896 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
19897 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
19898 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
19899 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
19900 network before we begin.
19901 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
19902 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
19903 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
19904 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
19905 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
19906 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
19907 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
19908 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
19911 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
19912 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
19913 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
19914 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
19915 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
19916 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
19918 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
19919 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
19920 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
19922 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
19923 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
19924 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
19925 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
19926 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
19927 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
19928 Implements part of ticket 12498.
19929 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
19930 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
19931 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
19932 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
19933 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
19934 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
19935 part of ticket 12498.
19936 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
19937 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
19938 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
19939 key). Closes ticket 13642.
19941 o Major features (Hidden services):
19942 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
19943 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
19944 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
19945 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
19946 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
19948 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
19949 introduction points, which used to change the number of
19950 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
19951 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
19953 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
19954 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
19955 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
19956 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
19957 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
19958 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
19960 o Major features (performance):
19961 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
19962 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
19963 Implements ticket 16467.
19964 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
19965 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
19966 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
19967 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
19969 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
19970 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
19971 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
19972 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
19973 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
19974 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
19976 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
19977 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
19978 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
19979 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
19980 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
19981 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
19982 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
19983 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
19986 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
19987 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
19988 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
19989 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
19990 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
19991 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
19992 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
19995 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
19996 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
19997 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
19998 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
19999 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
20000 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
20002 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
20003 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
20004 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
20005 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
20006 by "cypherpunks_backup".
20007 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
20008 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
20009 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
20012 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
20013 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
20014 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
20015 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
20016 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
20017 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
20018 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
20020 o Minor features (client):
20021 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
20022 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
20023 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
20025 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
20026 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
20027 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
20028 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
20029 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
20030 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
20031 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
20034 o Minor features (control protocol):
20035 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
20036 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
20038 o Minor features (directory authorities):
20039 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
20040 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
20041 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
20042 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
20043 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
20045 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
20046 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
20047 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
20049 o Minor features (hidden services):
20050 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
20051 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
20052 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
20053 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
20056 o Minor features (portability):
20057 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
20058 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
20059 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
20061 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
20062 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
20063 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
20064 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
20066 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
20067 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
20068 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
20069 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
20071 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
20072 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
20073 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
20074 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
20075 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
20076 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
20078 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
20079 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
20080 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
20081 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20082 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
20083 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
20084 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20086 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20087 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
20088 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20090 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
20091 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
20092 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
20093 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
20095 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
20096 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
20097 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
20098 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
20100 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
20101 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
20104 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
20105 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
20106 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
20107 from "cypherpunks".
20109 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
20110 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
20111 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20112 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
20113 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
20114 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
20116 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
20117 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
20118 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20120 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
20121 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
20122 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
20124 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
20125 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
20126 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20127 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
20128 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20129 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
20130 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
20131 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
20132 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20134 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20135 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
20136 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
20137 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
20138 haven't supported that in ages.
20139 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
20140 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
20141 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
20142 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
20145 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
20146 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
20147 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
20148 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
20149 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
20150 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
20152 o Removed features:
20153 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
20154 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
20155 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
20156 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
20157 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
20158 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
20159 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
20160 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
20161 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
20162 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
20163 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
20164 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
20165 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
20166 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
20167 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
20168 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
20169 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
20172 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
20173 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
20174 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
20175 Closes ticket 15817.
20176 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
20177 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
20179 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
20180 default as a part of "make check".
20181 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
20182 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
20183 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
20184 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
20188 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
20189 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
20190 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
20191 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
20192 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
20193 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
20195 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
20196 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
20197 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
20198 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
20199 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
20200 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
20201 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
20202 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
20205 o Major bugfixes (stability):
20206 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
20207 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
20208 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
20209 by "cypherpunks_backup".
20210 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
20211 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
20212 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
20215 o Minor features (geoip):
20216 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
20217 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
20219 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
20220 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
20221 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
20222 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
20223 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
20224 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
20226 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20227 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
20228 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
20229 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
20232 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
20233 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
20234 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
20235 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
20236 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
20238 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
20239 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
20240 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
20241 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
20242 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
20245 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
20246 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
20247 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
20248 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
20249 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
20250 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
20251 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
20253 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20254 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
20255 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
20256 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
20258 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20259 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
20260 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
20261 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
20262 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
20263 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
20266 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
20267 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
20268 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
20271 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
20272 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
20273 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
20274 authorities should upgrade.
20276 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
20277 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
20278 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
20279 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
20282 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
20283 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
20284 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
20287 o Minor features (geoip):
20288 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
20289 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20293 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
20294 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
20295 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
20296 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
20297 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
20298 the hidden services subsystem.
20300 o New system requirements:
20301 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
20302 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
20305 o Major features (controller):
20306 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
20307 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
20309 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
20310 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
20311 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
20312 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
20313 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
20314 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
20315 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
20317 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
20318 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
20319 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
20320 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
20323 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
20324 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
20325 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
20326 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
20327 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
20329 o Minor features (command-line interface):
20330 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
20331 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
20332 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
20333 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
20335 o Minor features (controller):
20336 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
20337 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
20338 present. Implements ticket 14840.
20339 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
20340 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
20341 Closes ticket 14845.
20342 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
20343 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
20344 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
20346 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
20347 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
20348 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
20349 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
20351 o Minor features (geoip):
20352 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
20353 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20356 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
20357 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
20358 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
20359 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
20360 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
20361 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
20362 Closes ticket 15745.
20364 o Minor features (logging):
20365 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
20366 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
20369 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
20370 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
20371 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
20372 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
20374 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
20375 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
20376 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
20377 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
20378 Resolves ticket 15435.
20380 o Minor features (testing):
20381 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
20382 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
20383 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
20384 files. Closes ticket 15180.
20385 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
20386 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
20387 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
20388 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
20389 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
20390 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
20391 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
20392 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
20393 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
20394 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
20395 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
20396 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
20398 o Minor bugfixes (build):
20399 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
20400 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
20403 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
20404 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
20405 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
20407 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
20408 stderr, not stdout.
20410 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
20411 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
20412 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
20413 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
20414 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
20415 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
20416 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
20417 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20419 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
20420 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
20421 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
20423 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
20424 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
20425 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
20428 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
20429 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
20430 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
20432 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
20433 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20435 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
20436 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
20437 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
20438 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
20441 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
20442 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
20443 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
20444 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
20445 recent enough Clang.
20447 o Minor bugfixes (network):
20448 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
20449 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
20450 unsuitable for public communications.
20452 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
20453 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
20454 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
20455 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
20456 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
20457 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
20459 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
20460 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
20461 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
20462 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
20463 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
20464 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
20465 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
20466 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
20468 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20469 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
20470 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
20472 - Set the severity correctly when testing
20473 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
20474 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
20475 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
20476 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
20478 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20479 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
20480 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
20482 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
20483 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
20484 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
20485 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
20486 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
20489 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
20490 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
20492 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
20493 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
20494 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
20495 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
20496 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
20499 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
20500 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
20501 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
20502 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
20503 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
20504 Closes ticket 14922.
20506 o Removed features:
20507 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
20508 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
20509 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
20510 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
20511 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
20512 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
20513 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
20514 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
20515 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
20516 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
20517 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
20520 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
20521 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
20522 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
20523 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
20524 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
20526 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
20527 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
20529 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
20530 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
20531 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
20532 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
20533 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
20534 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
20535 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
20537 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
20538 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
20539 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
20540 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
20541 Resolves ticket 15515.
20544 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
20545 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
20546 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
20547 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
20548 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
20550 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
20551 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
20553 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
20554 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
20555 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
20556 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
20557 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
20558 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
20559 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
20561 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
20562 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
20563 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
20564 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
20565 Resolves ticket 15515.
20568 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
20569 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
20570 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
20571 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
20572 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
20574 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
20575 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
20577 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
20578 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
20579 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
20580 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
20581 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
20582 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
20583 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
20585 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
20586 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
20587 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
20588 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
20589 Resolves ticket 15515.
20590 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
20591 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
20592 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
20596 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
20597 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
20599 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
20600 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
20601 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
20602 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
20603 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
20604 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
20605 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
20606 bugs should be addressed.
20608 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
20609 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
20610 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
20611 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
20613 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
20614 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
20615 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
20617 o Major bugfixes (client):
20618 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
20619 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
20622 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
20623 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
20624 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
20625 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
20626 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
20627 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20629 o Major bugfixes (portability):
20630 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
20631 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
20634 o Minor features (heartbeat):
20635 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
20636 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
20637 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
20638 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
20640 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20641 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
20642 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
20645 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
20646 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
20648 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
20649 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
20650 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
20652 o Directory authority changes:
20653 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
20654 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
20655 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
20656 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
20657 closes ticket 14487.
20659 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
20660 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
20661 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
20664 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
20665 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
20666 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
20667 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
20668 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
20669 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
20670 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
20671 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20673 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
20674 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
20675 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
20676 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
20678 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20679 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
20680 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
20681 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
20683 o Minor features (controller):
20684 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
20685 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
20686 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
20688 o Minor features (geoip):
20689 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
20690 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20693 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
20694 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
20695 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
20696 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20697 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
20698 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20700 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20701 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
20702 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
20703 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
20705 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
20706 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
20707 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
20708 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
20709 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
20710 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
20711 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
20712 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20714 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
20715 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
20716 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
20718 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
20719 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
20720 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
20721 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
20722 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
20726 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
20727 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
20728 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
20731 o Directory authority changes:
20732 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
20733 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
20734 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
20735 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
20736 closes ticket 14487.
20738 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
20739 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
20740 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
20741 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
20743 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
20744 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
20745 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
20746 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
20747 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
20748 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
20749 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
20750 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20752 o Minor features (geoip):
20753 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
20754 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20757 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
20758 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
20759 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
20760 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
20761 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
20763 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
20764 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
20765 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
20768 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
20769 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
20770 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
20771 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
20772 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
20773 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
20774 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
20775 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20777 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
20778 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
20779 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
20782 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20783 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
20784 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
20786 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
20787 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
20788 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
20789 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
20790 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
20792 o Minor features (controller):
20793 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
20794 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
20795 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
20797 o Minor features (geoip):
20798 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
20799 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20802 o Minor features (logs):
20803 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
20806 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
20807 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
20808 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
20809 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20810 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
20811 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
20812 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
20813 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
20814 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
20816 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20817 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
20819 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
20822 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20823 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
20824 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
20826 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
20827 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
20828 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
20829 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
20830 from "cypherpunks".
20831 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
20832 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
20835 o Directory authority IP change:
20836 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
20837 closes ticket 14487.
20840 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
20841 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
20842 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
20846 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
20847 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
20848 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
20849 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
20850 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
20851 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
20853 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
20854 the next version will be a release candidate.
20856 o Deprecated versions:
20857 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
20858 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
20860 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
20861 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
20862 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
20863 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
20864 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
20865 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
20867 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
20868 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
20869 Implements ticket 11485.
20871 o Major features (changed defaults):
20872 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
20873 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
20874 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
20875 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
20876 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
20877 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
20879 o Major features (directory system):
20880 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
20881 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
20882 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
20883 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
20884 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
20885 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
20886 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
20887 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
20888 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
20889 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
20890 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
20891 227. Closes ticket 10395.
20893 o Major features (guards):
20894 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
20895 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
20896 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
20897 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
20898 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
20900 o Major features (performance):
20901 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
20902 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
20903 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
20904 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
20905 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
20906 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
20907 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
20908 Implements ticket 9682.
20910 o Major features (relay):
20911 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
20912 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
20913 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
20915 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
20916 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
20917 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
20918 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
20920 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
20921 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
20922 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
20923 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
20924 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
20925 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
20926 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
20928 o Minor features (build):
20929 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
20930 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
20931 Resolves ticket 13037.
20933 o Minor features (controller):
20934 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
20935 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
20937 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
20938 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
20939 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
20940 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
20941 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
20942 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
20944 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
20945 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
20946 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
20947 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
20948 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
20949 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
20950 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
20951 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
20952 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
20953 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
20955 o Minor features (geoip):
20956 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
20957 GeoLite2 Country database.
20959 o Minor features (guard nodes):
20960 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
20961 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
20962 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
20964 o Minor features (hidden service):
20965 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
20966 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
20967 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
20968 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
20969 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
20970 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
20971 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
20972 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
20974 o Minor features (interface):
20975 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
20976 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
20977 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
20979 o Minor features (logging):
20980 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
20981 Resolves ticket 6852.
20982 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
20983 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
20984 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
20986 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
20987 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
20989 o Minor features (stability):
20990 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
20991 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
20994 o Minor features (systemd):
20995 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
20996 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
20998 o Minor features (testing networks):
20999 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
21000 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
21001 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
21002 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
21003 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
21004 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
21006 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
21007 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
21008 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
21009 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
21010 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
21012 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
21013 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
21014 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
21015 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
21016 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
21018 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
21019 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
21020 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
21021 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21022 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
21023 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
21024 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
21025 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21027 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
21028 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
21029 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
21030 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
21031 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
21032 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21033 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
21034 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
21036 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
21037 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
21038 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
21041 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
21042 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
21043 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
21044 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
21045 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
21047 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
21048 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
21049 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
21050 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
21051 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21053 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
21054 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
21055 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
21056 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
21057 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
21058 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
21059 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
21060 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
21061 Addresses ticket 14188.
21062 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
21063 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
21064 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
21065 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
21066 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
21067 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
21068 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
21069 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
21070 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21072 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
21073 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
21074 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
21075 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
21076 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
21077 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
21078 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
21079 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21081 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
21082 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
21083 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
21084 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
21085 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
21086 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
21087 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
21088 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21089 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
21090 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21091 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
21092 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
21093 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21095 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
21096 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
21097 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
21098 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
21099 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
21100 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
21101 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
21102 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
21103 state, and key files.
21104 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
21105 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
21108 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
21109 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
21110 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
21111 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
21112 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
21113 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
21114 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
21115 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21116 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
21117 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
21118 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21120 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
21121 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
21122 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21123 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
21125 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
21126 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
21128 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
21129 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
21130 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
21131 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
21132 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
21133 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
21135 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
21136 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
21137 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
21138 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21139 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
21140 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
21141 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21142 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
21143 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
21144 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21146 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
21147 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
21148 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
21150 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
21151 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
21153 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
21154 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
21155 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
21156 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
21157 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21159 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
21160 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
21161 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
21162 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
21165 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
21166 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
21167 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
21170 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
21171 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
21172 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
21174 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
21175 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
21176 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
21177 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
21178 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
21179 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
21180 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
21182 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
21183 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
21186 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
21187 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
21188 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
21190 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
21191 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
21192 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
21195 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21196 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
21197 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
21198 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
21199 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
21200 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
21201 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
21202 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
21203 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
21205 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
21206 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
21208 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
21212 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
21213 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
21214 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
21215 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
21216 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
21217 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
21219 o Downgraded warnings:
21220 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
21221 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
21223 o Removed features:
21224 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
21225 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
21226 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
21227 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
21228 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
21232 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
21233 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21234 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
21235 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
21236 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
21237 (existing behavior).
21238 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
21239 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
21240 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
21241 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
21242 Closes ticket 14107.
21243 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
21244 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
21245 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
21246 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
21248 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
21249 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
21250 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21253 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
21254 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
21255 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
21256 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
21257 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
21258 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
21260 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
21261 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
21262 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
21263 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
21265 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
21266 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
21267 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
21268 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
21269 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
21270 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
21272 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
21273 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
21274 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
21275 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
21276 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
21277 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
21278 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
21281 o Major features (hidden services):
21282 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
21283 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
21284 Closes ticket 13667.
21285 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
21286 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
21287 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
21288 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
21289 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
21290 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
21291 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
21292 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
21293 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
21294 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
21295 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
21297 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
21298 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
21299 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
21300 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
21301 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
21302 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
21305 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21306 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
21307 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
21308 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
21309 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
21310 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
21312 o Directory authority changes:
21313 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
21314 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
21315 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
21317 o Major removed features:
21318 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
21319 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
21320 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
21321 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
21323 o Minor features (client):
21324 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
21325 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
21326 Resolves ticket 13315.
21328 o Minor features (controller):
21329 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
21330 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
21333 o Minor features (geoip):
21334 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
21337 o Minor features (hidden services):
21338 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
21339 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
21340 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
21341 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
21342 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
21343 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
21345 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
21346 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
21347 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
21349 o Minor features (systemd):
21350 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
21351 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
21352 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
21353 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
21355 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
21356 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
21357 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
21358 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
21359 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
21362 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
21363 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
21364 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
21365 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
21366 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
21368 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
21369 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
21370 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
21373 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
21374 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
21375 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
21376 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
21377 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
21379 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
21380 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
21381 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21383 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
21384 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
21385 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
21386 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
21387 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
21389 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
21390 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
21393 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
21394 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
21395 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
21396 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
21397 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
21398 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
21399 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
21400 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
21401 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
21402 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
21403 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
21404 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
21405 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
21406 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
21409 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21410 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
21411 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
21412 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
21413 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
21414 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
21416 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
21417 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
21418 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
21419 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
21421 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
21422 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
21424 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
21425 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
21426 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
21427 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
21430 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
21431 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
21432 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
21433 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
21434 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
21435 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
21437 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
21438 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
21439 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
21440 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
21441 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
21442 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
21443 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
21444 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
21445 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
21446 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
21447 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
21448 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
21449 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
21450 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
21451 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
21452 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
21453 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
21454 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
21455 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
21456 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
21457 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
21458 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
21459 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
21460 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
21461 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
21462 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
21463 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
21464 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
21465 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
21466 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
21467 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
21468 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
21470 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
21471 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
21472 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
21473 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
21474 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
21476 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21477 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
21478 with a function instead.
21479 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
21480 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
21481 Closes ticket 13172.
21482 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
21483 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
21484 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
21485 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
21486 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
21487 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
21488 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
21489 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
21490 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
21491 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
21492 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
21493 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
21497 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
21498 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
21499 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
21500 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
21501 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
21502 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
21503 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
21504 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
21505 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
21506 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
21507 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
21508 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
21511 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
21512 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
21513 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
21514 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
21515 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
21516 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
21518 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
21522 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
21523 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
21524 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
21525 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
21526 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
21527 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
21528 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
21529 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
21530 of introducing infinite download loops.
21532 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
21533 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
21534 with 0.2.5.x for now.
21536 o New compiler and system requirements:
21537 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
21538 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
21539 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
21540 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
21542 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
21543 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
21544 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
21545 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
21546 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
21547 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
21548 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
21549 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
21550 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
21552 o Removed platform support:
21553 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
21554 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
21555 Closes ticket 11446.
21557 o Major features (bridges):
21558 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
21559 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
21560 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
21563 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
21564 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
21565 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
21566 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
21569 o Major features (directory system):
21570 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
21571 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
21572 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
21573 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
21575 o Major features (sample torrc):
21576 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
21577 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
21578 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
21579 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
21580 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
21581 generally useful "sample torrc".
21583 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
21584 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
21585 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21587 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
21588 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
21589 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
21590 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
21591 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
21593 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
21594 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
21595 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
21596 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
21598 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
21599 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
21600 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
21601 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
21602 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
21603 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
21606 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
21607 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
21608 document. Implements feature 10427.
21610 o Minor features (client):
21611 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
21612 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
21613 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
21614 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
21616 o Minor features (directory authorities):
21617 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
21618 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
21619 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
21620 argument more than once.
21621 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
21622 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
21623 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
21624 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
21625 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
21626 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
21628 o Minor features (logging):
21629 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
21630 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
21631 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
21632 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
21633 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
21634 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
21635 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
21636 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
21637 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
21639 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
21640 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
21641 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
21642 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
21644 o Minor features (relay):
21645 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
21646 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
21647 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
21649 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
21650 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
21651 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
21652 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
21654 o Minor features (testing networks):
21655 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
21656 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
21657 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
21658 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
21659 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
21662 o Minor features (validation):
21663 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
21664 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
21665 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
21666 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
21667 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
21668 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
21669 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
21670 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
21672 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
21673 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
21674 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
21675 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
21677 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
21678 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
21679 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
21680 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
21682 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
21683 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
21684 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
21686 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
21687 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
21688 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
21690 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
21691 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21692 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
21693 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
21694 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
21695 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
21696 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
21698 o Minor bugfixes (client):
21699 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
21700 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
21701 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
21702 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
21703 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21704 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
21705 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
21706 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
21708 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
21709 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
21710 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
21711 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
21712 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
21714 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
21715 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
21716 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
21718 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
21719 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
21720 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
21721 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
21722 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
21724 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
21725 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
21726 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
21727 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21728 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
21729 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
21730 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21731 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
21732 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
21733 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
21734 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
21737 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
21738 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
21739 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
21740 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
21741 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
21743 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
21744 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
21745 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
21746 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
21747 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
21750 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
21751 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
21752 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
21753 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
21754 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
21755 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
21757 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
21758 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
21759 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
21760 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
21762 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
21763 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
21764 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
21765 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
21767 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
21768 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
21769 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
21770 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
21773 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
21774 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
21775 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
21778 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
21779 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
21780 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
21781 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
21782 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
21785 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21786 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
21787 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
21789 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
21790 Resolves ticket 12205.
21791 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
21792 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
21793 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
21794 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
21796 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
21797 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
21798 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
21800 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
21801 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
21803 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
21804 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
21805 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
21806 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
21807 or_options_t structure.
21810 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
21811 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
21812 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
21813 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
21816 o Removed features:
21817 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
21818 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
21819 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
21820 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
21821 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
21822 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
21823 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
21824 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
21825 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
21827 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
21828 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
21830 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
21831 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
21832 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
21833 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
21834 anymore, and ignore it.
21837 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
21838 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
21839 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
21840 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
21841 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
21842 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
21843 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
21844 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
21845 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
21846 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
21847 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
21848 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
21850 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
21851 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
21852 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
21854 o Distribution (systemd):
21855 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
21856 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
21857 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
21858 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
21859 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
21861 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
21862 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
21864 o Removed features (directory authorities):
21865 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
21866 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
21867 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
21868 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
21869 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
21870 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
21871 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
21872 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
21873 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
21875 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
21876 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
21877 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
21878 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
21881 o Testing (test-network.sh):
21882 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
21883 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
21885 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
21887 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
21888 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
21889 Partially implements ticket 13161.
21892 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
21893 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
21895 It adds several new security features, including improved
21896 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
21897 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
21898 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
21899 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
21900 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
21901 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
21902 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
21903 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
21904 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
21905 and features mentioned below.
21907 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
21908 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
21910 o Deprecated versions:
21911 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
21912 attention for some while.
21915 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
21916 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
21917 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
21918 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
21919 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
21920 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
21922 o Major security fixes:
21923 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
21924 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
21925 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
21927 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
21928 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
21929 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
21930 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
21933 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
21934 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
21935 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
21936 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
21938 o Compilation fixes:
21939 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
21940 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
21941 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
21943 o Downgraded warnings:
21944 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
21945 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
21948 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
21949 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
21950 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
21951 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
21952 (which does affect Tor).
21954 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
21955 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
21956 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
21957 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
21959 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
21960 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
21961 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
21962 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
21965 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
21966 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
21967 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
21968 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
21969 the directory authorities.
21972 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
21973 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
21974 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
21975 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
21976 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
21977 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
21978 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
21979 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
21980 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
21981 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
21982 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
21983 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21985 o Directory authority changes:
21986 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
21989 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
21990 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
21991 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
21992 the directory authorities.
21995 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
21996 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
21997 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
21998 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
21999 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
22000 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
22001 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
22002 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
22003 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
22004 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
22005 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
22006 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22008 o Directory authority changes:
22009 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
22011 o Minor features (geoip):
22012 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
22016 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
22017 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
22018 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
22019 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
22020 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
22022 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
22023 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
22024 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
22025 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
22026 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
22027 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
22028 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
22029 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
22030 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
22031 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
22032 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
22033 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
22034 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
22035 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22036 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
22037 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
22039 o Major bugfixes (relay):
22040 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
22041 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
22042 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
22043 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
22044 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
22045 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
22046 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
22048 o Minor features (bridge):
22049 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
22050 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
22052 o Minor features (geoip):
22053 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
22056 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
22057 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
22058 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
22059 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
22060 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
22061 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
22062 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
22063 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
22064 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
22065 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
22066 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
22067 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
22068 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
22069 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
22070 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
22072 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
22073 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
22074 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
22075 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
22076 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
22078 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22079 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
22080 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22081 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
22082 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
22085 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
22086 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
22087 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
22088 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
22089 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
22090 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
22091 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
22092 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22093 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
22094 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
22095 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
22098 o Distribution (systemd):
22099 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
22100 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
22101 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
22102 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
22103 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
22104 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
22105 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
22106 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
22107 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
22111 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
22112 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
22114 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
22118 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
22119 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
22120 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
22121 us closer to a release candidate.
22123 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
22124 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
22125 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
22126 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
22127 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
22129 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
22130 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
22131 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
22132 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
22133 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
22134 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
22135 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
22136 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
22137 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
22141 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
22142 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
22143 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
22144 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
22145 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
22146 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
22147 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
22148 to build circuits".
22151 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
22152 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
22153 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
22154 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
22155 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
22156 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
22157 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
22158 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
22160 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
22162 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
22163 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
22164 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
22165 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
22166 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
22167 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
22168 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
22169 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
22170 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
22171 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22174 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
22175 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
22176 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
22177 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
22179 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
22180 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
22181 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
22184 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
22185 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
22186 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
22187 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
22190 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
22191 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
22192 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
22193 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
22194 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
22195 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
22196 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
22197 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
22198 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
22199 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
22202 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
22203 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
22204 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
22205 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
22206 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
22207 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
22208 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
22209 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
22213 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
22214 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
22215 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
22216 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
22217 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
22218 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
22219 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
22220 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
22221 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22222 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
22223 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
22224 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
22225 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
22228 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
22232 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
22233 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
22234 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
22235 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
22236 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
22237 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
22240 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
22241 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
22242 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
22243 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
22244 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
22245 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
22246 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
22247 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
22248 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
22249 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
22250 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
22251 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
22252 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22254 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
22255 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
22256 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
22257 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
22260 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
22261 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
22262 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
22264 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
22265 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
22266 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
22267 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
22268 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
22269 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
22270 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
22271 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
22272 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
22273 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
22274 router's identity is not forgeable.
22276 o Major bugfixes (relay):
22277 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
22278 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
22279 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
22280 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
22281 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
22282 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
22283 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
22284 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
22285 bugfix on every version of Tor.
22287 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
22288 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
22289 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
22290 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
22293 o Minor features (diagnostic):
22294 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
22295 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
22296 help diagnose bug 7164.
22297 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
22298 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
22299 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
22300 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
22301 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
22303 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
22304 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
22305 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
22306 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
22307 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
22308 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
22309 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
22311 o Minor features (security, memory management):
22312 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
22313 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
22314 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
22315 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
22316 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
22317 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
22319 o Minor features (security):
22320 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
22321 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
22322 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
22323 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
22325 o Minor features (build):
22326 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
22327 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
22328 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
22330 o Minor features (other):
22331 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
22334 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
22335 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
22336 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
22337 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
22338 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
22340 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
22341 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
22342 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
22343 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
22344 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
22345 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
22346 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
22347 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
22348 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
22349 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
22350 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
22351 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
22353 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
22354 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
22355 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
22356 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
22357 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
22358 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
22359 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
22360 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
22361 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
22362 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
22363 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
22364 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
22365 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
22366 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
22367 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
22368 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
22369 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
22370 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
22373 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
22374 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
22375 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
22376 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
22377 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
22378 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
22379 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
22381 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
22382 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
22383 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22384 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
22385 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22386 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
22387 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22388 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
22389 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
22391 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
22392 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
22394 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
22395 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
22397 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
22398 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
22399 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
22400 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
22401 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
22402 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22403 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
22404 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
22405 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
22407 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
22408 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
22409 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
22410 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
22411 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
22412 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22413 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
22414 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
22415 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22416 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
22417 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
22418 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22419 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
22420 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
22421 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
22422 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
22423 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
22424 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22426 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
22427 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
22428 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
22429 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
22430 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
22431 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22432 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
22433 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
22434 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
22437 o Minor bugfixes (client):
22438 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
22439 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
22440 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
22441 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22443 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
22444 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
22445 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
22446 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
22448 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
22449 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
22450 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
22451 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
22452 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
22453 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
22454 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
22455 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
22457 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
22458 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
22459 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
22460 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
22463 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
22464 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
22465 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
22466 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
22467 versions. Found by "skruffy".
22468 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
22469 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
22470 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
22473 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
22474 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
22475 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
22476 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
22479 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
22480 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
22481 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
22482 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
22484 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
22485 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
22486 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
22488 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
22489 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
22490 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
22492 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
22493 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
22494 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
22495 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
22496 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
22500 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
22501 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
22502 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
22503 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
22506 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
22507 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
22508 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
22509 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
22511 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
22512 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
22514 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
22515 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
22516 caches don't get confused.
22519 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
22520 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
22521 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
22522 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
22523 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
22526 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
22527 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
22528 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
22529 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
22530 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
22531 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
22535 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
22536 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
22537 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
22538 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
22539 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
22540 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
22541 of RAM, and several others.
22543 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
22544 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
22545 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
22546 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
22547 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
22549 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
22550 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
22551 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
22552 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
22555 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
22556 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
22557 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
22558 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
22559 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
22560 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
22561 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22562 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
22563 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
22564 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
22565 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
22566 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
22567 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
22568 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
22569 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
22570 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
22571 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
22572 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
22573 Resolves ticket 11438.
22575 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
22576 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
22577 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
22578 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
22579 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
22580 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
22582 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
22583 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
22584 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
22586 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
22587 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
22588 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22590 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
22591 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
22592 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
22593 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22595 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
22596 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
22597 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
22599 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
22600 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
22601 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
22604 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
22605 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
22606 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
22607 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
22610 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
22611 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
22612 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
22613 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
22615 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
22616 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
22617 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
22618 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
22620 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
22621 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
22622 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
22626 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
22627 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
22628 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
22629 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
22630 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
22631 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
22632 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
22633 the Linux sandbox code.
22635 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
22636 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
22637 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
22639 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
22640 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
22642 o Major features (security):
22643 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
22644 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
22645 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
22646 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
22647 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
22648 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
22649 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
22650 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
22652 o Major features (relay performance):
22653 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
22654 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
22655 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
22656 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
22657 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
22658 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
22659 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
22660 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
22661 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
22662 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
22664 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
22665 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
22666 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
22667 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
22668 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
22669 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
22670 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
22672 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
22673 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
22675 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
22676 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
22677 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
22678 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
22679 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
22680 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
22681 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22682 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
22683 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
22684 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
22685 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
22686 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
22687 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
22688 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
22689 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
22690 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
22691 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
22692 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
22693 Resolves ticket 11438.
22695 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
22696 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
22697 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
22698 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22700 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
22701 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
22702 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
22703 10267; patch from "yurivict".
22704 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
22705 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
22706 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
22707 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
22708 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
22709 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
22711 o Minor features (security):
22712 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
22713 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
22714 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
22715 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
22718 o Minor features (log verbosity):
22719 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
22720 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
22721 Resolves ticket 5286.
22722 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
22723 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
22724 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
22725 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
22726 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
22727 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
22728 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
22729 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
22730 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
22732 o Minor features (relay):
22733 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
22734 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
22735 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
22737 o Minor features (controller):
22738 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
22739 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
22741 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
22742 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
22743 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
22745 o Minor features (bridge client):
22746 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
22747 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
22748 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
22750 o Minor features (diagnostic):
22751 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
22752 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
22753 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
22754 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
22755 still referenced by a live node_t object.
22757 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
22758 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
22759 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
22760 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
22762 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
22763 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
22764 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
22765 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
22768 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
22769 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
22770 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22772 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
22773 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
22774 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
22775 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22776 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
22777 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
22778 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
22780 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
22781 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
22782 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
22783 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22784 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
22785 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
22786 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
22787 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
22788 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
22789 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
22790 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22791 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
22792 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
22795 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
22796 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
22797 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
22798 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
22799 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
22801 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
22802 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
22803 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
22806 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22807 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
22808 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
22810 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
22811 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
22812 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
22814 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
22815 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
22816 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
22817 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
22819 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
22820 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
22821 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
22822 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
22823 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
22825 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
22826 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
22827 early. Fixes bug 10081.
22829 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
22830 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
22831 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
22832 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
22833 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22834 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
22835 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
22836 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
22838 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
22839 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
22840 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
22841 should never have affected anyone in practice.
22843 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
22844 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
22845 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22847 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
22848 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
22849 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
22850 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
22851 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
22852 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
22853 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
22854 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
22855 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
22856 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
22857 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
22858 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
22859 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
22860 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
22862 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
22863 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
22864 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
22865 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
22866 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
22867 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
22868 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
22869 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
22873 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
22874 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
22875 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
22876 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22877 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
22878 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22879 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
22880 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
22882 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
22884 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22885 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
22886 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
22887 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
22888 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
22891 o Deprecated versions:
22892 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
22893 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
22894 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
22895 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
22898 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
22899 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
22900 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
22901 Patch from Dana Koch.
22904 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
22905 Resolves ticket 11070.
22908 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
22909 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
22910 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
22911 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
22912 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
22915 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
22916 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
22918 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
22919 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
22920 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
22921 streams attached to each circuit.
22923 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
22924 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
22925 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
22926 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
22927 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
22928 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
22929 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
22930 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
22931 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
22932 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
22933 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
22934 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
22935 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
22937 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
22938 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
22939 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
22941 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
22942 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
22943 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
22944 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
22945 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
22946 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
22947 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
22948 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
22949 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
22951 o Minor features (other):
22952 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
22953 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
22954 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
22955 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
22956 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
22957 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
22958 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
22959 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
22960 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
22963 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
22964 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
22965 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
22966 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
22967 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
22968 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
22969 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
22970 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
22972 o Minor bugfixes (client):
22973 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
22974 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
22975 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
22976 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22977 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
22978 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
22979 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
22981 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
22982 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
22983 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
22984 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
22985 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
22986 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22987 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
22988 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
22989 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
22990 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
22991 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
22992 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22994 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
22995 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
22996 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
22997 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
22998 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
22999 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
23000 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
23001 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
23002 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
23003 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
23004 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
23005 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
23006 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
23007 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
23009 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
23010 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
23012 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
23013 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
23014 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
23015 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
23016 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
23017 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
23018 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
23019 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
23020 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
23021 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
23022 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
23023 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
23024 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
23025 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
23027 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
23028 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
23029 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
23030 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
23033 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
23034 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
23035 the rest of bug 10841.
23038 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
23039 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
23040 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
23041 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
23042 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
23043 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
23044 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
23045 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
23046 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
23047 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
23048 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
23049 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23050 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
23051 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
23052 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23054 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23055 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
23056 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
23058 o Test infrastructure:
23059 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
23060 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
23061 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
23062 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
23065 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
23066 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
23067 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
23068 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
23070 o Major features (client security):
23071 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
23072 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
23073 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
23074 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
23075 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
23076 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
23079 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
23080 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
23081 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
23082 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23084 o Code simplification and refactoring:
23085 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
23086 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
23087 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
23088 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
23091 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
23092 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
23094 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
23095 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
23096 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
23097 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
23098 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
23099 GeoLite2 Country database.
23102 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
23103 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
23104 bugfix on every released Tor.
23105 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
23106 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
23107 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
23108 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23109 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
23110 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
23111 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
23112 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
23113 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
23114 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
23115 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
23116 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
23117 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23118 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
23119 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
23121 o Documentation fixes:
23122 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
23123 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
23126 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
23127 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
23128 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
23129 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
23130 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
23131 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
23132 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
23133 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
23135 o Major features (client security):
23136 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
23137 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
23138 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
23139 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
23140 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
23141 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
23142 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
23143 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
23144 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
23145 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
23146 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
23147 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
23149 o Major features (bridges):
23150 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
23151 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
23152 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
23153 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
23154 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
23155 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
23156 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
23157 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
23160 o Major features (other):
23161 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
23162 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
23163 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
23164 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
23165 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
23166 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
23167 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
23168 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
23169 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
23170 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
23171 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
23172 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
23175 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
23176 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
23177 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
23178 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
23179 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
23180 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
23181 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23183 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
23184 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
23185 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
23186 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
23187 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
23188 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
23189 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
23190 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
23191 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
23193 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
23194 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23195 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
23196 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
23197 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
23198 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
23200 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
23201 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
23202 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
23203 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
23204 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
23205 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
23208 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
23209 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
23210 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
23211 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
23212 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
23213 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
23214 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
23216 o Minor features (security):
23217 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
23218 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
23221 o Minor features (config options and command line):
23222 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
23223 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
23224 Implements ticket 10060.
23225 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
23226 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
23227 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
23229 o Minor features (controller):
23230 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
23231 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
23232 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
23233 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
23234 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
23237 o Minor features (build):
23238 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
23239 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
23240 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
23241 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
23242 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
23243 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
23244 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
23246 o Minor features (testing):
23247 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
23248 the unit test scripts.
23249 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
23250 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
23251 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
23252 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
23254 o Minor features (log messages):
23255 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
23256 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
23257 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
23258 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
23259 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
23260 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
23261 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
23262 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
23263 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
23264 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
23266 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
23267 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
23268 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
23269 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
23270 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
23271 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
23272 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
23273 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
23274 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
23275 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23277 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
23278 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
23279 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
23280 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
23283 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
23284 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
23285 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
23286 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
23287 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23289 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
23290 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
23291 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
23292 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
23293 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
23294 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
23295 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
23297 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
23298 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
23299 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
23300 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
23301 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
23302 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
23303 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23304 Reported by "mr-4".
23305 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
23306 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
23307 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
23308 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
23310 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
23311 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
23312 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
23313 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
23314 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
23315 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
23316 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
23317 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
23318 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
23319 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
23320 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23322 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
23323 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
23324 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
23325 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
23326 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
23327 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
23328 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
23329 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
23330 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
23331 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
23333 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
23334 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
23335 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
23336 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
23339 o Minor bugfixes (build):
23340 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
23341 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
23342 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
23343 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
23344 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
23346 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
23347 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23349 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
23350 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
23351 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
23352 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23354 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
23355 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
23356 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
23357 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23358 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
23359 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
23360 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
23361 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
23362 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
23363 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
23364 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
23365 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
23366 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
23367 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
23369 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
23370 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
23371 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23372 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
23373 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
23374 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
23376 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
23377 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
23378 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23379 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
23380 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
23381 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
23382 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
23383 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
23384 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
23385 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23386 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
23387 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
23389 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
23390 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
23391 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
23392 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
23393 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
23394 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
23395 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
23396 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
23397 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
23398 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
23399 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
23400 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
23401 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
23402 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
23403 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
23404 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
23407 o Removed code and features:
23408 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
23409 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
23410 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
23411 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
23412 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
23413 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
23415 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
23416 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
23417 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
23418 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
23419 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
23420 part of a fix for bug 10841.
23422 o Code simplification and refactoring:
23423 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
23424 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
23425 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
23426 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
23427 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
23428 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
23429 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
23430 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
23431 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
23432 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
23435 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
23436 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
23437 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
23438 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
23439 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
23441 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
23442 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
23443 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
23444 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
23445 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
23446 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
23447 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
23450 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
23451 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
23452 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
23455 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
23456 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
23457 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
23458 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
23459 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
23460 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
23461 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
23463 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
23464 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
23467 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
23468 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
23469 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
23470 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
23471 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
23472 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
23473 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
23474 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
23476 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
23477 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23478 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
23479 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
23480 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
23481 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
23484 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
23485 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23486 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
23487 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
23488 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
23491 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
23492 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
23493 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
23494 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
23495 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
23496 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
23497 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
23498 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
23500 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
23501 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
23502 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
23503 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
23504 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
23505 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
23506 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
23507 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
23508 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
23509 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
23510 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
23511 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
23512 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
23513 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
23514 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
23515 security, and privacy fixes.
23518 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
23519 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
23520 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
23521 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
23524 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
23525 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
23526 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
23527 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
23528 them to solve bug 6033.)
23531 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
23532 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
23533 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
23534 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
23535 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
23536 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23537 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
23538 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
23540 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
23541 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
23542 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
23543 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
23545 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
23546 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
23547 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23548 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
23549 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
23550 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
23551 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
23552 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
23553 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
23554 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23555 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
23556 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
23558 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
23559 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
23560 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
23561 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
23562 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
23563 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
23564 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
23565 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
23566 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
23567 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
23568 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
23569 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
23570 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
23571 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
23572 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
23573 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
23576 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
23577 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
23578 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
23579 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
23580 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
23581 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
23582 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
23583 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
23584 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
23585 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
23586 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
23587 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
23588 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
23589 Implements part of proposal 222.
23591 o Minor features (other):
23592 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
23593 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
23594 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
23595 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
23596 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
23597 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
23598 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
23599 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
23600 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23602 o Documentation fixes:
23603 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
23604 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
23605 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
23606 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
23607 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
23608 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
23611 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
23612 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
23613 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
23614 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
23615 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
23616 release of the new branch.
23618 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
23619 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
23620 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
23622 o Major features (security):
23623 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
23624 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
23625 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
23626 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
23627 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
23628 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
23629 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
23630 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
23631 Google Summer of Code.
23632 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
23633 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
23634 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
23635 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
23636 them to solve bug 6033.)
23638 o Major features (other):
23639 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
23640 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
23641 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
23642 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
23643 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
23645 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
23646 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
23647 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
23648 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
23649 Implements ticket 8530.
23650 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
23651 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
23654 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
23655 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
23656 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
23657 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
23658 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
23659 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23660 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
23661 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
23662 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23663 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
23664 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
23665 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
23666 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
23669 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
23670 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
23671 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
23672 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
23673 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
23674 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
23675 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
23676 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
23677 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
23678 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
23682 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
23683 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
23684 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
23685 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
23686 invoking the other functions it calls.
23687 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
23688 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
23689 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
23690 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
23692 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
23693 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
23694 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
23695 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
23696 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
23697 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
23698 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
23699 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
23700 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
23701 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
23702 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
23703 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
23704 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
23705 Implements part of proposal 222.
23707 o Minor features (config options):
23708 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
23709 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
23710 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
23711 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
23712 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
23713 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
23714 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
23715 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
23716 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
23717 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
23718 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
23719 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
23720 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
23721 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
23722 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
23723 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
23724 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
23727 o Minor features (build):
23728 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
23729 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
23730 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
23731 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
23732 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
23735 o Minor features (other):
23736 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
23737 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
23738 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
23739 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
23740 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
23741 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
23742 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
23743 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
23744 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
23745 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
23746 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
23747 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
23748 Closes ticket 8109.
23749 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23752 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
23753 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
23754 bugfix on every released Tor.
23755 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
23756 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
23757 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
23758 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
23759 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
23760 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
23762 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
23763 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
23764 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
23765 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23766 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
23767 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
23768 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
23769 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
23771 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
23772 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
23773 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
23774 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
23775 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
23777 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
23778 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
23780 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
23781 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
23782 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
23784 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
23785 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
23786 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
23787 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
23788 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23790 o Minor code improvements:
23791 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
23792 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
23794 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
23795 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
23796 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
23797 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
23798 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
23800 o Removed features:
23801 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
23802 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
23803 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
23804 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
23806 o Code simplification and refactoring:
23807 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
23808 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
23809 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
23810 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
23811 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
23812 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
23813 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
23814 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
23815 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
23816 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
23817 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
23818 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
23819 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
23820 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
23821 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
23824 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
23825 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
23826 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
23827 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
23828 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
23829 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
23830 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
23833 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
23834 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
23835 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
23836 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
23837 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
23838 Implements ticket 9574.
23841 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
23842 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
23843 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
23844 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
23845 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
23846 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
23847 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
23848 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
23849 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
23850 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
23851 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
23852 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
23856 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
23857 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
23858 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
23859 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
23861 o Minor fixes (config options):
23862 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
23863 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
23864 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
23865 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
23866 message is logged at notice, not at info.
23867 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
23868 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
23869 or we just won't work.)
23872 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
23873 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
23874 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
23875 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23878 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
23879 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
23880 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
23883 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
23884 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
23885 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23886 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
23887 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
23888 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
23889 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
23891 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
23892 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23893 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
23894 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
23897 - Fix an invalid memory read that occurred when a pluggable
23898 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
23899 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
23900 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
23901 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
23902 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
23903 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
23904 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
23905 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
23906 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
23907 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23908 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
23909 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
23912 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23915 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
23916 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
23917 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
23918 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
23921 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
23922 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
23923 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23926 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
23927 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
23928 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
23931 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
23932 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
23933 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
23936 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
23937 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
23938 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
23939 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
23940 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
23941 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
23943 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
23944 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
23945 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
23946 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
23947 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
23948 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
23950 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
23951 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
23952 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
23955 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
23956 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
23957 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
23958 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
23959 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
23961 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
23962 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
23963 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
23964 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
23965 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
23966 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
23967 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
23969 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
23970 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
23971 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
23973 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
23974 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
23978 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
23979 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
23980 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
23982 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
23983 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
23984 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
23985 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
23986 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
23987 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
23989 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
23990 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
23991 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
23992 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
23993 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
23994 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
23995 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
23998 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
23999 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
24000 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
24001 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
24002 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
24003 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
24004 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24005 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
24006 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
24007 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
24008 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
24009 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24010 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
24011 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
24013 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
24014 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
24015 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
24016 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
24019 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
24020 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
24021 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
24022 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
24023 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
24024 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
24026 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
24027 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
24031 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
24032 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
24033 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
24034 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
24035 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
24036 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
24037 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24039 o Removed documentation:
24040 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
24041 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
24043 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24044 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
24045 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
24046 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
24049 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
24050 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
24051 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
24052 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
24053 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
24054 variety of other issues.
24057 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
24058 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
24059 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
24060 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
24061 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
24062 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24063 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
24064 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
24066 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
24067 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
24068 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
24070 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
24071 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
24072 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
24073 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24074 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
24075 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
24076 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
24078 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
24079 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
24080 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
24081 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
24082 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
24083 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
24084 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
24085 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
24086 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
24087 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
24088 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
24089 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
24090 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
24091 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
24092 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
24093 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
24094 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
24095 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
24096 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
24097 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
24098 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
24100 o Major bugfixes (other):
24101 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
24102 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
24103 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
24104 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24107 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
24108 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
24109 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
24110 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
24112 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
24113 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
24115 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24117 o Minor features (build):
24118 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
24119 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
24121 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
24122 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
24124 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
24125 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
24126 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
24129 o Minor bugfixes (build):
24130 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
24131 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
24132 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24133 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
24134 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
24135 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
24136 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
24137 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
24138 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24139 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
24140 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
24141 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
24142 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
24145 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
24146 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
24147 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
24148 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
24149 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
24150 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
24151 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
24152 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
24153 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
24154 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
24155 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
24156 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
24157 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
24158 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24159 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24161 o Minor bugfixes (other):
24162 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
24163 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24164 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
24165 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
24166 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
24167 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
24168 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24169 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
24170 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
24171 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
24172 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
24173 Should help resolve bug 8235.
24174 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
24175 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
24176 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
24177 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
24179 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
24180 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
24181 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
24182 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
24183 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
24184 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
24185 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
24186 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
24189 o Minor bugfixes (config):
24190 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
24191 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
24193 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
24194 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
24195 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
24196 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
24197 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
24198 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
24199 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24200 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
24201 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
24202 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
24203 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
24204 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
24205 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
24206 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
24207 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
24210 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
24211 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
24212 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
24213 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
24214 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
24215 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
24216 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
24217 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
24219 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
24220 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
24221 or at least make it more diagnosable.
24222 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
24223 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
24224 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
24225 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24227 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
24228 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
24229 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
24230 the relaxed timeout log message.
24231 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
24232 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
24233 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
24235 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
24236 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
24237 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24238 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
24239 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
24240 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
24241 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
24244 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
24245 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
24246 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
24247 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
24248 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24249 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
24250 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
24251 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
24252 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
24253 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
24254 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
24255 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
24256 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24257 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
24258 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
24259 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
24260 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
24262 o Documentation fixes:
24263 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
24264 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
24265 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
24266 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
24267 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
24268 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
24269 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
24270 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
24273 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
24274 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
24278 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
24279 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
24280 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
24281 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
24283 o Major features (directory authorities):
24284 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
24285 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
24286 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
24287 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
24288 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
24289 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
24290 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
24291 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
24292 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
24293 Implements ticket 8151.
24295 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
24296 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
24297 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
24298 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
24299 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
24301 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
24302 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
24303 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
24304 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
24305 whether authentication information is present, causing all
24306 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
24307 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
24309 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
24310 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
24311 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
24312 bugs 1913 and 1992.
24313 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
24314 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
24315 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
24316 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
24317 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
24318 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
24319 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
24320 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
24321 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
24322 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
24323 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
24324 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
24325 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
24326 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
24327 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
24328 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
24329 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
24330 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
24333 o Minor features (portability):
24334 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
24335 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24336 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
24337 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
24338 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
24339 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
24340 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
24341 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
24343 o Minor features (other):
24344 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
24345 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
24346 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
24347 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
24348 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
24349 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
24350 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
24351 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
24353 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24355 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
24356 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
24357 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
24358 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
24359 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
24360 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
24361 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
24362 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
24363 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
24364 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
24366 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
24367 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
24368 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
24369 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
24371 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
24372 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
24373 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
24374 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
24375 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
24376 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
24377 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
24379 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
24380 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
24381 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
24382 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
24383 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
24385 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
24386 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
24387 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
24388 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
24390 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
24391 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
24392 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
24395 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
24396 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
24397 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
24398 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
24400 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
24401 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
24402 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
24403 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24405 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
24406 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
24407 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
24408 this is CID 718634.
24409 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
24410 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
24411 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
24412 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
24414 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
24415 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
24416 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
24417 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
24418 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
24419 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
24420 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
24422 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24423 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
24427 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
24428 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
24429 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
24430 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
24431 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
24434 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
24435 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
24436 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
24437 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
24439 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
24440 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
24441 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
24445 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
24446 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
24447 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
24448 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
24449 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
24450 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
24451 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
24452 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
24453 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
24454 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
24455 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
24456 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
24457 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
24460 o Major features (relay):
24461 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
24462 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
24463 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
24464 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
24465 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
24466 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
24467 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
24469 o Major features (portability):
24470 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
24471 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
24472 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
24473 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
24474 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24477 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
24478 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
24479 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
24480 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
24481 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
24482 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
24484 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
24485 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
24486 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
24487 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
24488 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
24489 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
24490 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
24491 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
24493 o Minor features (path selection):
24494 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
24495 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
24496 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
24497 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
24498 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
24499 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
24500 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
24501 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
24502 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
24503 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
24504 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
24505 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
24506 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
24507 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
24508 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
24509 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
24510 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
24511 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
24512 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
24514 o Minor features (log messages):
24515 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
24516 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
24517 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
24518 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
24521 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
24522 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
24523 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
24524 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
24525 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
24526 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
24527 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
24528 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
24529 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
24530 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24531 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
24532 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24534 o Build improvements:
24535 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
24536 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
24537 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
24538 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
24539 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
24540 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
24541 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
24542 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
24543 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
24544 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
24545 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
24546 than to perform erroneously.
24548 o Removed features:
24549 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
24550 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
24551 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
24553 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
24554 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
24555 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
24558 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24559 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
24561 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
24562 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
24566 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
24567 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
24568 work more robustly.
24571 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
24572 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
24573 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
24577 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
24578 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
24579 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
24580 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
24583 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
24584 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
24585 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
24586 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
24587 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
24588 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
24589 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
24590 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
24591 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
24592 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
24593 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
24594 closes ticket 7199.
24596 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
24597 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
24598 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
24599 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
24600 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
24601 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
24602 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
24603 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
24604 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
24605 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
24606 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
24608 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
24609 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
24610 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
24612 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
24613 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
24614 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
24616 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
24618 o Major features (better link encryption):
24619 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
24620 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
24621 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
24622 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
24623 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
24624 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
24627 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
24628 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
24629 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
24630 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
24631 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
24632 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
24633 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
24635 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
24636 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
24637 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
24638 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
24640 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
24643 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
24644 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
24645 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24648 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
24649 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
24650 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
24651 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
24652 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
24653 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
24654 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
24655 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
24656 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24658 o Minor features (testing):
24659 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
24660 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
24661 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
24663 o Minor features (path bias detection):
24664 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
24665 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
24666 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
24667 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
24668 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
24669 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
24670 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
24671 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
24672 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
24673 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
24674 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
24675 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
24676 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
24677 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
24678 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
24679 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
24680 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
24681 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
24682 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
24683 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
24684 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
24685 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
24686 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
24687 detection capability loss.
24689 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
24690 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
24691 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
24692 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
24693 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24694 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
24695 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
24696 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
24699 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24700 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
24701 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
24702 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
24703 and the different handshakes it supports.
24704 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
24705 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
24706 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
24707 any encoding is overkill.
24710 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
24711 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
24712 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
24713 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
24714 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
24715 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
24716 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
24717 and fixes a variety of other issues.
24719 o Major features (client resilience):
24720 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
24721 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
24722 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
24723 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
24724 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
24725 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
24726 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
24727 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
24728 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
24729 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
24730 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
24731 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
24732 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
24733 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
24734 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
24736 o Major features (IPv6):
24737 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
24738 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
24739 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
24740 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
24741 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
24742 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
24743 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
24744 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
24746 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
24747 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
24749 o Major features (geoip database):
24750 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
24751 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
24752 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
24753 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
24754 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
24755 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
24756 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
24757 Country database, as modified above.
24759 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
24760 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
24761 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
24762 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
24763 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
24764 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
24765 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
24766 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
24767 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
24768 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
24769 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
24770 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
24771 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
24772 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
24773 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
24774 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
24775 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
24778 o Major bugfixes (other):
24779 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
24780 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
24781 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
24782 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
24783 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
24784 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
24785 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
24786 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
24788 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
24789 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
24792 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
24793 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
24794 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
24795 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
24796 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
24797 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
24798 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
24799 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
24801 o Minor features (IPv6):
24802 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
24803 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
24804 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
24805 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
24806 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
24807 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
24808 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
24809 connect to the wrong addresses.
24810 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
24811 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
24812 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
24813 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
24817 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
24818 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
24819 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
24820 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
24821 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
24822 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
24823 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
24825 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
24826 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
24827 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
24830 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
24831 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
24833 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24834 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
24835 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
24836 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
24837 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
24840 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
24841 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
24842 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
24843 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
24844 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
24845 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
24846 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
24847 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
24849 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
24850 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
24851 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
24852 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
24853 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
24854 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
24855 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
24856 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
24857 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
24858 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
24859 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
24862 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
24863 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
24864 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
24865 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
24866 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
24867 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
24868 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
24869 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
24870 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
24871 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
24874 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
24875 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
24879 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
24880 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
24881 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
24882 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
24885 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
24886 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
24888 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
24889 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
24890 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
24891 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
24892 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
24893 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
24894 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
24895 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
24896 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
24897 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
24900 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
24902 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
24903 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
24904 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
24905 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
24906 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
24909 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
24910 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
24911 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24912 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
24913 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
24915 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
24916 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
24917 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
24918 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
24919 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
24920 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
24921 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
24923 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
24924 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
24925 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
24926 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
24927 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
24928 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
24929 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
24930 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
24932 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24933 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
24934 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
24935 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
24936 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
24937 present the same extensions.)
24940 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
24941 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
24942 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
24943 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
24944 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
24946 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
24947 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
24948 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
24949 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
24951 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
24952 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
24953 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
24954 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24956 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
24957 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
24958 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
24959 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
24960 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
24961 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
24962 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
24963 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
24964 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24966 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
24967 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
24968 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
24969 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
24970 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24973 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
24974 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
24975 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
24977 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24978 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
24980 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
24981 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
24985 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
24986 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
24987 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
24988 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
24991 o Major bugfixes (security):
24992 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
24993 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
24994 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
24996 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
24997 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
24998 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
24999 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25002 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
25003 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
25004 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
25005 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
25006 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
25007 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
25008 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
25009 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25012 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
25013 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
25014 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
25015 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25018 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
25019 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
25020 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
25021 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
25022 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
25023 scheduling algorithms.
25025 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
25026 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
25027 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
25029 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
25030 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
25031 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
25032 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
25033 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
25034 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
25035 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
25036 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
25037 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
25038 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
25039 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
25041 o Internal abstraction features:
25042 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
25043 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
25044 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
25045 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
25046 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
25047 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
25048 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
25049 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
25050 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
25051 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
25052 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
25053 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
25054 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
25055 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
25056 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
25057 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
25058 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
25060 o Required libraries:
25061 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
25062 strongly recommended.
25065 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
25066 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
25067 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
25068 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
25069 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
25070 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
25071 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
25072 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
25073 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
25075 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
25076 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
25077 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
25078 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
25079 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
25080 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
25081 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
25082 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25083 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
25084 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
25085 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
25086 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
25087 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
25088 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
25089 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
25092 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
25093 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
25094 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
25095 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
25096 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
25097 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
25098 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
25099 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
25100 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
25101 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
25102 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
25103 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
25104 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
25105 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
25106 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25107 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
25108 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
25109 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
25110 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
25112 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
25113 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
25114 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
25115 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
25116 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
25117 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
25118 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
25121 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
25122 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
25123 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
25124 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
25126 o New directory authorities:
25127 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
25128 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
25130 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
25131 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
25132 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
25133 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
25134 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
25135 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
25136 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
25137 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
25138 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
25139 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
25140 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
25143 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
25144 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
25145 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
25147 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
25148 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
25149 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
25150 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25151 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
25152 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
25153 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
25154 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
25155 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
25157 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
25158 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
25159 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
25160 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
25161 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
25162 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
25163 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
25164 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
25165 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
25166 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
25167 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
25168 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
25169 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
25170 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
25171 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
25172 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
25173 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
25174 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
25176 o Documentation fixes:
25177 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
25180 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
25181 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
25182 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
25183 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
25186 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
25187 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
25188 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
25191 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
25192 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
25193 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
25194 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
25195 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
25196 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
25197 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
25198 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
25200 o Security features:
25201 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
25202 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
25203 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
25204 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
25205 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
25206 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
25207 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
25208 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
25209 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
25213 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
25214 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
25215 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
25218 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
25219 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
25220 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
25221 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
25222 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25223 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
25224 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
25225 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
25226 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
25227 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
25228 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
25229 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
25230 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
25231 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
25233 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
25234 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25235 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
25236 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
25237 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25239 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
25240 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
25241 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
25242 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25243 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
25244 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
25245 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25246 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
25247 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
25248 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
25249 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
25250 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
25251 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
25252 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25253 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
25254 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
25255 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
25256 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
25257 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
25258 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
25260 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25261 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
25262 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
25263 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
25264 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
25265 testable, and a little less fragile too.
25266 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
25267 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
25269 o Documentation fixes:
25270 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
25271 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
25275 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
25276 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
25280 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
25281 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
25282 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
25285 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
25286 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
25290 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
25291 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
25295 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
25296 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
25297 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
25298 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
25299 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
25300 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
25301 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
25305 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
25306 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
25307 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
25308 log messages less noisy.
25311 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
25312 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
25316 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
25317 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
25318 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
25319 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
25320 last time we raised it).
25323 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
25324 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
25326 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
25327 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
25328 part of ticket 6736.
25329 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
25330 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
25331 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
25335 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
25336 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
25337 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
25338 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
25339 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
25341 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
25342 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25343 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
25344 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
25345 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25346 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
25347 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
25348 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25349 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
25350 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25351 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
25352 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25354 o Removed features:
25355 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
25356 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
25357 bunch of compatibility code.
25359 o Code refactoring:
25360 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
25361 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
25362 the ORPort and the DirPort.
25365 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
25366 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
25367 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
25368 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
25370 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
25371 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
25372 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
25374 o Major features (bridges):
25375 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
25376 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
25377 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
25380 o Major features (IPv6):
25381 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
25382 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
25383 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
25384 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
25385 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
25386 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
25387 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
25388 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
25389 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
25391 o Major features (build):
25392 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
25393 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
25394 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
25395 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
25396 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
25397 fixes by Jim Meyering.
25398 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
25399 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
25400 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
25402 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
25403 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
25404 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
25405 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
25406 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
25407 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
25408 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
25409 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
25410 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
25411 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
25412 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
25414 o Minor features (streamlining);
25415 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
25416 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
25418 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
25419 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
25420 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
25421 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
25422 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
25423 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25425 o Minor features (controller):
25426 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
25428 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
25429 Implements ticket 4971.
25431 o Minor features (IPv6):
25432 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
25433 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
25434 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
25435 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
25436 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
25438 o Minor features (log messages):
25439 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
25440 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
25441 Resolves ticket 6758.
25442 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
25443 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
25444 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
25445 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
25446 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
25447 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
25448 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
25450 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
25451 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
25452 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
25453 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
25454 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
25457 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25458 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
25459 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
25460 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
25461 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
25463 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
25464 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
25465 Implements ticket 5529.
25466 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
25467 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
25468 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
25469 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
25470 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
25471 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
25472 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
25473 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
25474 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
25475 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
25477 o New requirements:
25478 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
25479 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
25480 from a source distribution.)
25483 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
25484 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
25485 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
25486 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
25487 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
25488 and cleans up other smaller issues.
25490 o Major bugfixes (security):
25491 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
25492 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
25493 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
25494 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
25495 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
25496 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
25497 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
25498 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
25499 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
25500 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
25501 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
25502 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
25503 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
25504 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
25505 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
25506 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
25510 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
25511 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
25512 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
25513 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
25514 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
25515 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
25516 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
25517 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
25518 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
25519 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
25522 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
25523 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
25524 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
25525 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
25526 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
25527 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
25528 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
25529 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
25530 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
25531 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
25532 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
25534 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
25535 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
25536 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
25538 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
25539 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
25540 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
25541 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
25542 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
25543 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
25544 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
25545 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
25546 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25547 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
25548 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
25549 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
25550 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
25551 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
25554 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
25555 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
25556 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
25557 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
25558 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
25559 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
25560 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
25561 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
25562 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
25563 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
25564 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
25565 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
25566 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
25567 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
25568 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
25571 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
25572 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
25573 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
25574 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
25575 Resolves ticket 6732.
25578 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
25579 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
25580 attack that could in theory leak path information.
25583 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
25584 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
25585 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
25586 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
25587 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
25588 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
25589 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
25590 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
25591 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
25592 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
25593 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
25594 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
25595 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
25596 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
25599 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
25600 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
25601 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
25602 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
25605 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
25606 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
25607 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25608 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
25609 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
25610 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
25611 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
25612 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
25613 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
25614 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
25615 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
25616 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
25617 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
25618 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
25619 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
25620 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
25621 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
25624 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
25625 a little more useful.
25626 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
25627 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
25628 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
25629 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
25630 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
25631 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
25632 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
25635 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
25636 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25637 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
25638 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
25639 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
25640 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
25644 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
25645 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
25646 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
25647 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
25648 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
25651 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
25652 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
25653 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
25656 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
25658 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
25660 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25661 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
25662 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
25663 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
25664 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
25667 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
25668 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
25669 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
25670 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
25671 since the beginning of Tor.
25674 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
25675 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
25676 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
25677 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
25678 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
25679 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
25680 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
25681 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
25682 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
25683 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
25686 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
25687 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
25690 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
25691 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
25692 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
25693 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
25696 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
25697 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25698 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
25699 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
25700 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
25701 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
25703 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
25704 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
25705 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
25706 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
25707 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
25708 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
25709 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25710 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
25711 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
25712 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
25713 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
25714 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
25715 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
25716 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
25717 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
25718 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
25719 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
25720 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
25721 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
25723 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
25724 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
25725 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
25727 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
25728 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25729 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
25730 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
25732 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
25733 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
25734 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
25735 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
25736 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
25737 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
25738 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25739 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
25740 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
25741 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
25742 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
25743 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
25744 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
25745 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
25746 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
25747 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
25750 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
25751 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
25752 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
25753 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
25754 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
25757 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
25758 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
25759 options. Closes bug 4748.
25762 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
25763 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
25764 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
25765 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
25766 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
25770 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
25771 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
25773 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
25774 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
25775 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
25776 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
25777 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
25778 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
25779 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
25780 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
25781 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
25784 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
25785 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
25786 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
25787 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
25788 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
25789 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
25790 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
25791 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
25794 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
25795 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
25796 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
25797 case for flushing marked connections.
25798 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
25799 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
25800 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
25801 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
25802 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
25803 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
25804 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
25805 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
25806 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
25807 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
25808 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
25809 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
25810 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
25811 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
25812 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
25813 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
25814 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
25815 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
25816 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
25817 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
25818 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
25819 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
25820 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
25821 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
25822 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
25824 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
25825 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
25826 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
25830 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
25831 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
25832 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
25833 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
25834 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
25835 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
25836 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
25837 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
25838 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
25839 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
25840 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
25841 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
25842 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
25843 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
25844 Addresses ticket 5458.
25845 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25847 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25848 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
25849 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
25852 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
25853 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
25854 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
25858 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
25859 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
25860 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
25861 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
25862 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
25863 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
25864 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
25865 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
25866 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
25867 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
25868 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25871 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
25872 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
25875 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
25876 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
25879 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
25880 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
25881 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
25882 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
25883 that get us closer to a release candidate.
25885 o Major bugfixes (general):
25886 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
25887 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
25888 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
25889 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
25890 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
25891 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
25892 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
25893 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
25894 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
25896 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
25897 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
25898 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
25899 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
25902 o Major bugfixes (clients):
25903 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
25904 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
25905 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
25906 which introduced predicted ports.
25907 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
25908 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
25909 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
25910 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25911 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
25912 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
25913 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
25914 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
25915 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
25916 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
25917 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
25918 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
25919 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
25921 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
25922 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
25923 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
25924 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
25925 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
25926 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
25927 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
25928 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
25929 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
25930 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
25931 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
25935 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
25936 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
25937 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
25938 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
25939 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
25940 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
25941 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
25942 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
25943 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
25944 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
25945 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
25946 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
25947 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
25948 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
25950 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
25951 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
25952 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
25953 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
25954 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
25955 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
25956 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
25957 sure. Closes bug 5139.
25958 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
25959 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
25960 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
25961 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
25962 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
25963 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
25964 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25966 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
25967 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
25968 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
25969 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
25970 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
25971 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
25972 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
25973 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
25974 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
25975 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
25976 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
25977 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
25978 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
25979 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
25980 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
25981 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
25982 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
25983 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
25984 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
25985 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
25987 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
25988 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
25989 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
25990 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
25991 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
25992 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
25993 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
25994 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
25995 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
25996 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
25997 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
25998 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
25999 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
26001 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
26002 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26003 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
26004 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
26006 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
26007 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
26008 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
26009 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
26010 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
26011 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
26012 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
26013 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
26014 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
26015 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
26017 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
26018 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
26019 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
26021 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26022 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
26023 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
26024 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
26025 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
26026 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
26027 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
26028 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
26029 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
26030 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
26031 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
26032 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26033 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
26034 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
26035 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
26036 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26037 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
26038 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
26039 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
26040 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
26042 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
26043 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
26044 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26045 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
26046 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
26047 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
26049 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
26050 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
26051 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
26053 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
26054 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
26055 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
26056 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
26057 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
26058 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
26060 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
26061 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
26062 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
26064 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
26065 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
26066 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26067 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
26068 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
26069 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26070 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
26071 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
26072 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
26073 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
26074 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
26075 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
26076 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
26077 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
26078 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
26079 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
26081 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
26082 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
26083 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26084 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
26085 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
26086 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26087 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
26088 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26089 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
26090 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
26091 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
26092 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
26093 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
26096 o Documentation fixes:
26097 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
26098 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
26099 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
26100 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
26101 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
26102 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
26105 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
26106 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
26110 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
26111 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
26112 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
26113 and fixes several crash bugs.
26115 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
26116 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
26117 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
26118 those packages and upgrade anyway.
26120 o Directory authority changes:
26121 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
26122 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
26126 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
26127 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
26128 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
26129 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
26130 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
26131 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
26132 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
26133 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
26134 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
26135 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
26136 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
26137 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
26138 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
26139 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
26140 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
26141 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
26142 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
26143 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
26144 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
26145 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
26146 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
26147 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
26148 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
26149 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
26150 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
26151 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
26152 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
26155 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
26156 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26157 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
26158 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
26160 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
26161 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
26163 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
26164 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
26165 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
26166 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
26167 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
26168 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
26169 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
26170 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
26173 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
26174 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
26175 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
26176 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
26177 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
26178 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
26179 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
26180 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
26181 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
26182 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
26183 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
26184 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
26185 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
26186 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
26187 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
26188 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
26189 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
26190 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
26191 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
26192 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
26193 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
26194 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
26195 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
26196 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
26197 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
26198 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
26199 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
26200 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
26201 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
26202 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
26203 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
26204 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
26205 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
26206 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
26207 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26208 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
26209 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
26210 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
26211 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
26212 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
26213 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
26214 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
26215 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
26216 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
26217 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
26218 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
26220 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
26221 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
26222 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
26223 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
26224 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
26225 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
26226 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
26227 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
26228 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
26229 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
26230 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26231 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
26232 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
26233 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
26234 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
26237 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
26238 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
26239 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
26240 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
26242 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26245 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
26246 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
26247 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
26248 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
26249 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
26250 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
26251 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
26254 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
26255 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
26256 the development branch build on Windows again.
26258 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26259 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
26260 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
26261 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
26262 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
26263 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
26264 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
26265 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
26266 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
26267 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
26268 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
26269 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
26270 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
26271 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
26272 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
26274 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
26275 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
26276 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
26277 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26278 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
26279 and 0.2.3.12-alpha.
26280 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
26281 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
26282 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
26283 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
26284 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
26285 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
26288 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
26289 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
26290 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
26291 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
26292 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
26293 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
26294 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
26295 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
26296 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
26298 o Removed features:
26299 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
26300 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
26301 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
26302 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
26306 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
26307 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
26308 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
26309 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
26311 o Directory authority changes:
26312 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
26316 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
26317 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26318 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
26319 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
26321 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
26322 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
26323 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
26324 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
26325 documents entirely.
26326 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
26327 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
26328 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26330 o Major features (performance):
26331 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
26332 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
26333 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
26334 much faster than other AES implementations.
26336 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
26337 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
26338 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
26339 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
26340 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
26341 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
26342 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
26343 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
26344 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
26345 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
26346 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
26347 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
26348 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
26349 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
26350 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
26351 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
26352 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
26353 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
26355 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
26356 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
26357 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
26358 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26359 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
26360 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26361 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
26362 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
26363 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
26365 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
26366 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
26367 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
26368 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
26369 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
26370 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
26373 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
26374 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
26375 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
26376 please let us know about it.
26377 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
26378 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
26379 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
26380 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
26381 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26382 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26383 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
26384 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
26386 o Default torrc changes:
26387 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
26388 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
26390 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
26391 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
26392 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
26395 o Removed features:
26396 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
26397 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
26398 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
26399 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
26401 o Code refactoring:
26402 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
26403 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
26404 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
26405 it would be a bad idea to start.
26408 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
26409 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
26410 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
26411 that get us closer to a release candidate.
26413 o Directory authority changes:
26414 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
26417 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
26418 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
26419 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
26420 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
26421 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
26422 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
26423 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
26424 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
26425 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
26426 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
26427 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
26428 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
26429 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
26430 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
26431 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
26432 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
26434 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
26435 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
26436 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
26437 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
26438 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
26439 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26440 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
26441 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
26442 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26443 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
26444 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
26445 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
26447 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
26448 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
26449 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26450 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
26451 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
26453 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26454 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
26455 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
26456 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
26457 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
26458 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
26459 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
26460 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
26461 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
26462 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
26463 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
26464 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
26465 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
26466 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
26467 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26468 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
26469 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
26470 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
26471 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
26472 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
26473 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
26474 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
26477 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
26478 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
26479 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26480 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
26481 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
26482 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
26483 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
26484 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
26485 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26486 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
26487 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
26488 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
26489 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
26490 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
26491 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
26492 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
26493 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
26496 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
26497 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
26498 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26501 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
26502 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
26503 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
26504 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
26507 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
26508 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
26510 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
26511 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
26512 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
26513 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
26514 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
26515 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
26516 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
26517 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
26518 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
26519 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
26520 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
26521 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26524 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
26525 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
26526 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
26527 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
26528 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
26529 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
26530 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26533 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
26534 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
26535 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
26536 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26537 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
26538 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
26539 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
26540 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
26541 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
26542 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
26544 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
26545 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
26546 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
26547 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
26548 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
26549 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
26550 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
26551 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
26552 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
26555 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26556 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
26557 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
26561 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
26562 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
26563 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
26564 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
26565 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
26566 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
26569 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
26570 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
26571 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
26572 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
26573 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
26574 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
26575 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
26576 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
26578 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
26579 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
26580 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
26581 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
26582 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
26583 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
26584 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
26585 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
26587 o Major security workaround:
26588 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
26589 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
26590 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
26591 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
26592 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
26593 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
26594 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
26595 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
26596 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
26597 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
26598 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
26601 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
26602 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
26603 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
26604 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
26605 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
26606 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
26607 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
26608 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26609 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
26610 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
26611 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
26612 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
26613 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
26615 o Minor features (controller):
26616 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
26617 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
26618 file. Resolves bug 1101.
26619 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
26620 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
26621 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
26622 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
26623 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
26624 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
26626 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
26627 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
26628 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
26629 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
26630 part of ticket 3457.
26631 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
26632 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
26633 circuit-status' control-port command.
26635 o Minor features (directory authorities):
26636 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
26637 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
26638 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
26639 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
26641 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
26642 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
26643 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
26644 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
26645 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
26646 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
26647 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
26649 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
26650 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
26652 o Minor features (other):
26653 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
26654 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
26655 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
26656 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
26657 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
26658 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
26659 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
26660 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
26662 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
26663 them from the other auths.
26664 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
26665 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
26666 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
26667 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
26668 the 0.2.3.x series.
26669 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26671 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
26672 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
26673 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
26674 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
26675 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
26676 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
26677 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
26678 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
26679 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
26680 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
26681 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
26682 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
26683 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
26684 be disabled using the new
26685 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
26686 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
26687 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
26688 had its introduction cell acknowledged by the introduction-point
26689 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
26690 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
26691 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
26692 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
26693 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
26694 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
26695 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
26696 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
26698 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
26699 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
26700 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
26703 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
26704 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
26705 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
26707 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
26708 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
26709 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
26710 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
26711 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
26712 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
26713 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
26715 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
26716 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
26717 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
26718 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
26719 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
26720 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
26721 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
26722 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
26724 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
26725 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
26726 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
26727 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
26728 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
26729 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
26730 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
26731 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
26732 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
26735 o Minor bugfixes (other):
26736 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
26737 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
26738 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
26739 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
26740 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
26741 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
26742 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
26743 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
26744 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
26745 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
26746 accidentally been reverted.
26747 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
26748 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
26749 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
26750 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
26751 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
26752 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
26753 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
26754 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
26755 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
26756 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26757 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
26758 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
26759 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
26760 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
26761 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26762 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
26763 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26764 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
26765 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26768 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
26769 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
26770 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
26771 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
26772 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
26773 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
26774 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
26776 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26777 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
26778 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
26779 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
26780 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
26781 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
26782 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
26784 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
26785 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
26786 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
26787 invalid value, rather than just -1.
26788 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
26789 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
26790 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
26791 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
26792 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
26793 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
26794 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
26798 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
26799 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
26800 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
26802 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
26803 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
26804 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
26805 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
26806 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
26807 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
26808 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
26809 (which Tor does not do by default).
26811 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
26812 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
26813 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
26814 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
26815 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
26817 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
26821 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
26822 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
26823 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
26824 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
26827 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
26828 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
26829 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
26830 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
26831 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
26832 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
26833 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
26834 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
26835 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
26836 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
26837 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26840 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26843 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
26844 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
26845 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
26847 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
26848 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
26849 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
26850 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
26851 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
26852 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
26853 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
26854 (which Tor does not do by default).
26856 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
26857 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
26858 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
26859 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
26860 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
26862 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
26863 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
26864 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
26867 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
26868 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
26869 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
26870 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
26871 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
26873 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
26874 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
26877 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
26878 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
26879 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
26880 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
26881 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
26882 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
26883 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
26884 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
26886 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
26887 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
26888 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
26889 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
26890 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
26891 close based on processing a cell on it.
26892 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
26893 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
26894 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
26895 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26896 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
26897 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
26898 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
26899 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
26900 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
26901 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
26902 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
26903 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
26904 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
26905 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
26906 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
26909 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
26910 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
26911 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
26912 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
26913 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
26914 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
26915 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
26917 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
26918 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
26919 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
26920 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
26921 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
26922 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
26923 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
26924 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
26925 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26926 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
26927 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
26928 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
26929 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
26930 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
26931 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
26932 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
26933 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
26934 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
26935 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
26936 Reported by "troll_un".
26937 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
26938 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26939 Reported by "troll_un".
26940 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
26941 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
26942 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
26943 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
26946 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
26947 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
26948 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
26949 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
26950 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
26951 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
26952 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
26953 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
26954 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
26955 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
26956 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26958 o Packaging changes:
26959 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
26960 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
26963 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
26964 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
26965 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
26966 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
26967 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
26969 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
26970 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
26972 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
26973 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
26974 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
26975 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
26976 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26977 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
26978 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
26979 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
26980 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
26983 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26986 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
26987 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
26988 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
26989 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
26990 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
26991 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
26992 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
26995 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
26996 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
26997 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
26998 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
26999 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
27000 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
27001 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
27002 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
27003 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
27004 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
27005 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
27006 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
27007 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
27008 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
27009 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
27010 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
27011 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
27012 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
27013 Resolves ticket 4526.
27014 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
27015 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
27016 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
27017 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
27018 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
27019 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
27020 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
27021 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
27022 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
27023 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
27024 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
27025 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
27026 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
27027 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
27028 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
27029 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
27032 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
27033 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
27034 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
27035 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
27036 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
27037 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
27038 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
27039 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
27040 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
27041 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
27043 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
27044 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
27045 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
27046 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
27047 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
27048 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
27049 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
27050 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
27051 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
27053 o Minor features (new/different config options):
27054 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
27055 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
27056 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
27057 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
27058 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
27059 Implements issue 933.
27060 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
27061 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
27062 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
27063 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
27064 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
27065 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
27066 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
27067 appending to the list.
27068 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
27069 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
27070 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
27071 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
27073 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
27074 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
27075 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
27076 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
27077 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
27078 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
27079 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
27080 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
27083 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
27084 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
27085 Resolves ticket 2474.
27086 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
27087 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
27088 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
27089 Required by fix for bug 3460.
27090 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
27091 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
27092 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
27093 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
27094 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
27095 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
27096 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
27097 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
27098 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
27100 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27101 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
27102 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
27104 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
27106 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
27107 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
27109 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
27110 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
27111 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
27112 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
27113 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
27114 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
27115 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
27117 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
27118 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
27119 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
27120 Reported by "troll_un".
27121 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
27122 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27123 Reported by "troll_un".
27124 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
27125 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
27126 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
27127 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
27129 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
27130 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
27132 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
27133 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
27134 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
27135 with help from wanoskarnet.
27136 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
27137 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
27140 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
27141 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
27142 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
27143 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27145 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
27146 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
27147 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
27148 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
27149 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
27150 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
27151 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
27152 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
27155 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
27156 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
27157 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
27158 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
27159 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
27160 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
27161 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
27162 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
27163 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
27166 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
27167 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
27168 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
27169 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
27171 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
27172 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
27173 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
27174 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27175 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
27176 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
27177 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
27178 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
27179 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
27180 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
27181 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
27182 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
27183 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
27184 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
27185 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
27186 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
27187 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
27188 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
27189 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
27190 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
27191 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
27192 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
27193 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
27194 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
27197 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
27198 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
27199 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
27200 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
27201 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
27202 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27203 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
27204 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
27207 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27208 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
27209 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
27210 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
27211 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
27212 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
27213 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
27214 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
27215 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
27216 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
27217 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
27218 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
27219 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
27220 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
27221 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
27223 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
27224 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
27225 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
27226 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
27227 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
27228 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
27229 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
27230 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27231 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
27232 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
27233 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
27234 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
27235 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
27236 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
27237 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
27238 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
27239 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
27241 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
27242 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
27243 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
27244 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
27245 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27246 Found by frosty_un.
27247 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
27248 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
27249 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
27251 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
27252 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
27253 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
27255 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
27256 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
27258 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
27259 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27262 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
27263 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
27264 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
27265 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
27266 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
27267 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
27268 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
27269 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
27270 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
27271 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
27272 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
27273 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
27274 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
27275 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
27277 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
27278 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
27279 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27281 o Packaging changes:
27282 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
27283 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
27285 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27286 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
27287 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
27288 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
27289 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
27290 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
27291 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
27292 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
27293 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
27296 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
27298 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
27299 ./src/test/bench binary.
27300 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
27301 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
27304 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
27305 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
27306 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
27310 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
27311 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
27312 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
27313 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
27314 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
27315 close based on processing a cell on it.
27316 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
27317 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
27318 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27319 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
27320 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
27321 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
27322 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
27323 cells were introduced.
27326 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
27327 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
27330 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
27331 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
27332 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
27333 users. Everybody should upgrade.
27335 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
27336 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
27339 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
27340 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
27341 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
27342 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
27343 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
27344 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
27346 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
27347 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
27348 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
27349 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
27350 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
27351 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
27352 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
27353 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
27354 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
27355 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
27356 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
27357 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
27358 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
27359 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
27360 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
27361 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
27362 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
27363 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
27366 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
27367 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
27368 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
27369 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
27370 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
27371 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
27372 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
27373 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
27374 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
27375 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
27376 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
27377 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
27378 Partly fixes bug 3825.
27379 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
27380 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
27381 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
27382 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
27383 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
27384 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
27385 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
27387 o Major bugfixes (other):
27388 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
27389 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
27390 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
27391 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27392 Found by "frosty_un".
27393 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
27394 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
27395 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
27396 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
27397 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
27398 immensely in tracking this bug down.
27399 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
27400 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
27403 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27404 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
27405 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
27406 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
27407 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
27408 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
27409 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
27410 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
27411 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
27412 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
27413 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
27414 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
27415 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
27416 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
27417 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
27418 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
27419 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
27420 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
27421 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
27422 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
27423 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
27425 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
27426 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
27427 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
27428 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27429 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
27430 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
27431 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
27432 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
27433 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
27434 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
27435 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
27438 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
27439 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
27440 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
27441 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
27442 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
27443 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
27444 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
27445 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
27446 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
27447 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
27448 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
27449 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
27450 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
27451 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27453 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27454 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
27455 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
27456 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
27457 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
27458 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
27459 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
27460 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
27463 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
27464 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
27465 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
27467 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
27468 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
27469 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
27470 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
27471 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
27472 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
27473 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
27474 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
27475 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
27476 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
27477 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
27478 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
27479 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
27481 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
27482 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
27483 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
27484 currently connected to them.
27486 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
27487 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
27488 remain; see for example proposal 188.
27490 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
27491 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
27492 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
27493 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
27494 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
27495 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
27496 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
27497 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
27498 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
27499 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
27500 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
27501 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
27502 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
27503 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
27504 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
27505 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
27506 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
27507 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
27510 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
27511 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
27512 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
27513 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
27514 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
27515 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
27516 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
27517 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
27518 when bridges were introduced.
27519 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
27520 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
27521 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
27522 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27523 Found by "frosty_un".
27526 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
27527 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
27529 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
27530 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
27531 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
27532 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
27533 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
27534 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
27535 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
27538 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
27539 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
27540 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
27541 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
27542 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
27543 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
27544 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
27545 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
27546 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
27547 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
27548 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
27549 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
27550 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
27551 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
27552 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
27553 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
27554 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
27555 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
27557 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
27558 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
27559 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
27560 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
27561 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
27562 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
27563 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
27564 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
27565 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
27566 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
27567 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
27568 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
27571 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
27572 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
27573 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
27574 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27577 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
27578 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
27579 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
27580 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
27581 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
27583 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
27584 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
27585 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
27586 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
27587 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
27588 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
27589 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
27590 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
27591 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
27592 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
27594 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
27595 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
27596 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
27597 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
27598 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
27599 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
27600 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
27601 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
27602 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
27603 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
27604 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
27605 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
27606 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
27607 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
27608 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27609 Found by "frosty_un".
27610 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
27611 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
27612 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
27613 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
27614 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
27615 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
27616 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
27617 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
27618 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
27619 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
27620 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
27621 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
27622 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27623 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
27624 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
27625 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
27626 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
27627 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
27628 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
27630 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
27631 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
27632 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
27633 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
27634 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
27635 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
27636 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
27637 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
27639 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
27640 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
27641 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
27642 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
27643 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
27644 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
27645 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
27646 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
27647 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
27648 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
27649 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
27650 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
27652 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
27653 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27654 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
27655 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27656 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
27657 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27658 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
27659 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
27660 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
27662 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
27664 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
27665 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
27666 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
27667 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27668 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
27669 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
27670 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
27671 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
27673 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
27674 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
27675 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
27676 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
27677 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
27679 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
27680 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
27681 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
27682 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
27683 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27686 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
27687 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
27688 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
27689 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
27690 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
27693 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
27694 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
27695 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
27696 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
27697 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
27698 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
27699 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
27700 when bridges were introduced.
27703 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
27704 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
27705 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27707 o Major features (networking):
27708 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
27709 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
27710 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
27711 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
27712 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
27716 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
27717 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
27718 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
27720 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
27721 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
27722 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
27723 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
27724 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
27726 o Minor features (diagnostics):
27727 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
27728 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
27731 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
27732 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
27733 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
27734 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
27735 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
27736 listed in the network consensus and republish.
27738 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
27739 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
27740 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
27741 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
27743 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
27744 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
27745 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
27746 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
27747 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
27748 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
27749 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
27750 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
27751 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
27752 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
27753 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
27755 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
27756 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
27757 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
27758 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
27759 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
27760 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
27761 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
27762 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
27763 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
27764 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27766 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
27767 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
27768 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
27769 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
27770 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
27771 fixes part of bug 2442.
27772 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
27773 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
27774 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
27776 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
27777 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
27778 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
27779 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
27780 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27782 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
27783 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
27784 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
27785 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
27786 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
27789 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
27790 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
27791 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
27795 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
27796 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
27797 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
27798 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
27799 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
27800 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
27801 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
27804 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
27805 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
27806 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
27807 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
27808 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
27809 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
27810 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
27813 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
27814 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
27815 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
27816 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
27817 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
27818 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
27819 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
27820 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
27821 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27823 o Code refactoring:
27824 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
27825 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
27828 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
27829 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
27830 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
27831 reachable from Iran again.
27834 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
27835 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
27836 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
27838 o Minor features (security):
27839 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
27840 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
27841 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
27842 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
27843 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
27844 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
27845 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
27846 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
27847 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
27848 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
27851 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
27852 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
27853 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
27854 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
27855 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
27856 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
27857 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
27858 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
27859 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27861 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
27862 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
27863 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
27864 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
27865 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
27866 raised by bug 3898.
27867 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
27868 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
27869 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
27870 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
27871 fixes part of bug 2442.
27872 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
27873 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
27874 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
27876 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
27877 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
27878 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
27879 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
27880 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27883 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
27884 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
27885 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
27886 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
27887 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
27888 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
27891 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
27892 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
27893 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
27894 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
27895 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
27896 bufferevent-based networking backend.
27898 o Major features (stream isolation):
27899 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
27900 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
27901 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
27902 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
27903 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
27904 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
27905 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
27906 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
27907 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
27908 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
27909 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
27910 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
27911 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
27912 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
27914 o Major features (other):
27915 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
27916 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
27917 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
27918 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
27919 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
27920 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
27921 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
27922 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
27923 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
27924 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
27925 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
27926 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
27927 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
27929 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
27930 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
27932 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
27933 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
27934 Fixes part of bug 3752.
27935 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
27936 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
27937 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
27938 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
27939 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
27940 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
27941 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
27942 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
27943 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
27944 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
27945 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
27946 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
27947 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
27948 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
27949 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
27950 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
27951 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
27953 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
27954 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
27955 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
27956 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
27957 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
27958 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
27961 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
27962 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
27963 user. Implements ticket 1692.
27964 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
27965 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
27966 best copy data out of a buffer.
27967 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
27968 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
27969 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
27971 o Minor features (build compatibility):
27972 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
27973 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
27974 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
27976 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
27977 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27979 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
27980 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
27981 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
27982 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
27983 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
27984 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
27985 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27987 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
27988 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
27989 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
27990 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
27991 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
27992 raised by bug 3898.
27993 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
27994 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
27995 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
27998 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
27999 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
28000 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
28001 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
28002 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
28003 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
28004 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
28005 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
28006 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
28007 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
28008 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
28009 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28010 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
28011 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
28012 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
28013 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
28014 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
28015 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
28016 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
28019 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28020 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
28021 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
28025 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
28026 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
28027 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
28028 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
28029 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
28030 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
28033 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
28034 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
28035 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
28036 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
28037 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
28038 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
28039 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
28040 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
28041 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
28042 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
28044 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
28045 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
28046 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
28047 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
28048 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
28049 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
28050 many many other features and bugfixes.
28053 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
28054 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
28055 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
28058 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
28059 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
28060 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
28061 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
28062 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
28063 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
28064 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
28065 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
28068 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28071 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
28072 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
28073 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28074 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
28075 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
28076 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
28077 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
28078 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
28079 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
28080 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
28081 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
28082 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
28083 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
28084 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28085 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
28086 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
28087 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
28088 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
28092 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
28093 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
28094 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
28095 up a variety of recently introduced features.
28098 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
28099 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
28100 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
28101 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
28102 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
28103 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
28104 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
28105 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
28106 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
28107 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
28108 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
28109 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
28110 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
28111 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
28112 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
28113 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
28115 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
28116 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
28117 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
28118 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
28119 order. Fixes bug 2798.
28120 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
28121 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
28122 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
28123 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
28124 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
28125 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
28129 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
28130 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
28131 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
28132 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
28134 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
28135 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
28136 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
28137 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
28138 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
28139 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
28140 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
28141 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
28142 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
28143 Implements ticket 3264.
28144 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
28145 implements ticket 3439.
28147 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
28148 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
28149 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
28150 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
28151 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
28152 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
28153 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
28154 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
28155 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
28156 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
28157 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
28158 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
28159 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
28160 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
28161 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
28162 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
28163 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
28164 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
28165 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
28166 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
28167 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
28168 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
28169 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
28170 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
28171 fails. Spotted by coverity.
28172 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
28173 present. Found by coverity.
28174 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
28175 a directory cache that provides them.
28177 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
28178 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
28179 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
28180 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
28181 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
28182 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
28184 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
28185 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
28186 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
28187 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
28188 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
28189 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28190 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
28191 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
28193 o Code simplification and refactoring:
28194 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
28195 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
28196 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
28197 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
28198 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
28199 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
28201 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
28205 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
28206 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
28207 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
28210 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
28211 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
28212 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
28213 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
28216 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
28217 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
28218 discovered by katmagic.
28219 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
28220 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
28221 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
28222 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28223 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
28224 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
28225 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
28226 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
28227 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
28228 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
28229 fixes part of bug 3465.
28230 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
28231 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
28235 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28238 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
28239 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
28240 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
28241 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
28242 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
28245 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
28246 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
28247 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
28248 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
28249 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
28252 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
28253 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
28254 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
28255 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
28256 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
28257 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
28260 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
28261 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
28262 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
28263 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
28264 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
28265 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
28266 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
28267 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
28268 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
28269 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
28270 fixes part of bug 3407.
28271 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
28272 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
28273 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
28274 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
28275 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
28276 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
28277 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
28278 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
28279 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
28280 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
28282 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
28283 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
28284 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
28285 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
28288 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28290 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28291 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
28292 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
28294 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
28296 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
28299 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
28300 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
28301 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
28302 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
28303 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
28304 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
28308 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
28309 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
28310 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
28311 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
28312 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
28313 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
28314 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
28316 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
28317 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
28318 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
28319 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
28320 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
28321 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
28322 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
28323 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
28324 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
28325 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
28326 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
28327 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
28328 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
28329 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
28330 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
28331 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
28332 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
28333 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
28334 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
28338 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
28339 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
28340 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
28341 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
28342 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
28343 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
28344 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
28345 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
28346 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
28350 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
28351 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
28352 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
28354 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
28356 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
28357 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
28358 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
28359 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
28360 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28361 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
28362 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
28363 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
28364 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
28366 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
28367 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
28368 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
28369 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
28370 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
28371 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
28373 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
28374 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
28376 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
28377 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
28378 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
28381 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
28382 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
28383 Resolves ticket 3252.
28384 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
28385 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
28386 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
28387 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
28388 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
28389 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
28392 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
28393 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
28396 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
28397 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
28398 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
28401 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
28402 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
28403 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
28404 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
28405 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
28408 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
28409 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
28410 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
28411 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
28412 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
28413 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
28414 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
28415 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
28416 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
28420 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
28421 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
28422 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
28423 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
28424 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
28426 o Security/privacy fixes:
28427 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
28428 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
28429 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
28430 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
28431 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
28432 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
28433 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
28434 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
28435 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
28436 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
28437 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
28438 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
28439 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
28440 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
28441 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
28444 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
28445 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
28446 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
28447 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
28448 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
28449 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
28450 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
28451 part of ticket 3076.
28452 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
28453 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
28454 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
28458 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
28459 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
28460 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
28461 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
28462 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
28463 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
28464 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
28465 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
28467 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
28468 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
28469 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
28470 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
28471 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
28472 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
28473 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
28474 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
28475 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
28476 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
28477 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
28478 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
28479 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28482 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
28483 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
28484 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
28485 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
28486 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
28487 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
28488 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
28490 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
28491 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
28492 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
28493 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
28494 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
28495 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
28496 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
28497 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
28498 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
28499 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
28500 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
28501 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
28502 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
28503 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
28504 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
28505 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
28507 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
28508 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
28510 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
28511 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
28513 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
28514 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
28516 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
28517 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
28518 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28520 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
28521 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
28522 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
28523 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
28524 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
28525 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
28526 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
28527 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
28528 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
28529 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
28530 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
28532 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
28533 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
28534 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
28535 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
28536 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
28537 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
28538 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
28539 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
28540 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
28541 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
28542 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
28543 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
28544 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
28547 o Removed features:
28548 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
28549 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
28550 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
28554 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
28555 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
28556 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
28557 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
28558 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
28559 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
28561 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
28562 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
28563 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
28566 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
28567 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
28568 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
28569 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
28570 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
28571 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
28572 zero-copy transports where available.
28573 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
28574 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
28575 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
28576 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
28577 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
28578 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
28579 debug it as it breaks.
28580 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
28581 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
28582 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
28583 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
28584 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
28585 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
28586 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
28587 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
28588 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
28589 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
28590 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
28591 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
28592 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
28593 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
28594 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
28595 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
28596 PortForwarding option.
28597 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
28598 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
28599 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
28600 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
28601 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
28602 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
28603 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
28606 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
28607 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
28608 Implements enhancement 1668.
28609 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
28611 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
28612 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
28613 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
28614 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
28615 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
28616 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
28617 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
28619 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
28620 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
28621 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
28622 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
28623 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
28624 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
28625 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
28627 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
28628 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
28629 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
28630 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
28631 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
28632 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
28633 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
28635 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
28636 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
28637 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
28638 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
28639 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
28640 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
28641 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
28642 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
28643 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
28644 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
28645 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
28646 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
28647 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
28648 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
28649 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
28652 o Minor features (controller):
28653 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
28654 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
28655 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
28656 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
28657 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
28658 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
28659 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
28662 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
28663 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
28664 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
28665 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
28666 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
28667 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
28668 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
28669 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
28671 o Minor packaging issues:
28672 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
28673 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
28675 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28676 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
28677 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
28678 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
28679 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
28680 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
28681 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
28682 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
28683 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
28684 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
28685 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
28686 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
28687 our library structure used to force them to link it.
28689 o Removed features:
28690 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
28691 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
28692 are no longer in use as servers.
28694 o Documentation fixes:
28695 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
28696 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
28697 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
28701 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
28702 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
28703 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
28704 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
28705 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
28706 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
28707 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
28708 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
28709 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
28710 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
28713 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
28714 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
28715 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
28716 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
28717 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
28718 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
28719 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
28720 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
28721 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
28722 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28723 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
28724 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
28725 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
28726 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
28727 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
28728 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
28730 o Security and stability fixes:
28731 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
28732 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
28733 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
28734 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
28735 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
28736 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
28737 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
28738 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
28739 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
28740 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
28741 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
28742 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
28743 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28744 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
28745 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
28746 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
28749 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
28750 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
28751 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
28752 contributions to the network.
28754 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
28755 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
28756 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
28757 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
28758 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
28759 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
28760 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
28761 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
28762 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
28763 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
28764 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
28765 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
28766 connections to directory servers.
28767 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
28768 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
28769 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
28770 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
28771 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
28772 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
28773 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
28774 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
28775 information, or fetch directory information.
28776 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
28777 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
28778 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
28779 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
28780 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
28781 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
28782 unless you really want your Tor to break.
28783 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
28784 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
28785 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
28786 - When StrictNodes is 1:
28787 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
28788 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
28789 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
28790 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
28791 reachability self-tests.
28792 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
28793 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
28794 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
28795 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
28796 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
28797 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
28798 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
28800 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
28801 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
28802 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
28803 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
28804 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
28805 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
28806 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
28807 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
28808 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
28809 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
28810 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
28813 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
28814 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
28815 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
28816 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
28817 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
28818 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
28819 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
28820 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
28821 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
28822 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
28823 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
28824 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
28825 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
28826 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
28827 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
28828 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
28829 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
28831 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
28832 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
28833 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
28834 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
28835 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
28836 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
28837 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28838 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
28839 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
28840 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
28841 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
28842 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
28843 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
28844 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
28845 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
28846 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
28847 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
28848 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
28849 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
28850 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
28853 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
28854 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
28855 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
28856 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
28857 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
28858 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
28859 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
28860 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
28861 Required by fix for bug 3000.
28862 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
28863 by fix for bug 3000.
28864 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
28865 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
28867 o Code simplification and refactoring:
28868 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
28869 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
28870 send a body too). Since only server versions before
28871 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
28872 keep the workaround in place.
28873 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
28874 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
28875 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
28876 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
28877 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
28878 want to do it differently.
28879 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
28880 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
28881 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
28882 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
28883 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
28887 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
28888 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
28889 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
28890 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
28891 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
28894 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
28895 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
28896 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
28897 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
28898 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
28900 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
28901 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
28902 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
28903 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
28904 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
28905 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
28906 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
28907 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
28908 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
28909 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
28910 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
28911 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
28914 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
28915 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
28916 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
28917 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
28918 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
28919 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
28920 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
28922 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
28923 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
28924 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
28925 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
28926 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
28927 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
28928 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
28929 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
28930 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
28931 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
28932 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
28933 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
28934 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
28935 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
28936 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
28937 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
28938 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
28939 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
28940 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
28941 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
28942 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
28943 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
28944 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28947 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
28948 networkstatus vote.
28949 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
28950 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
28951 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
28953 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
28954 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
28955 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
28956 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
28958 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
28959 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
28960 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
28961 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28964 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
28965 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
28967 o Documentation changes:
28968 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
28969 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
28971 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
28974 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
28975 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
28976 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
28977 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
28978 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
28979 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
28982 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
28983 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
28984 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
28985 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
28986 the rest of bug 1074.
28987 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
28988 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
28989 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28990 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
28991 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
28992 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
28993 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28994 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
28995 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
28996 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
28997 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
28998 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
28999 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
29000 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29003 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
29004 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
29005 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
29006 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
29007 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
29008 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
29009 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
29010 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
29011 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
29012 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
29013 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
29014 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
29015 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
29016 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
29018 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
29019 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
29020 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
29021 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
29022 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
29023 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
29025 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
29026 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
29027 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
29028 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
29029 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
29030 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
29031 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
29032 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
29033 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
29034 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
29035 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
29036 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
29037 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
29038 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
29039 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
29040 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
29041 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
29042 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
29043 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
29044 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
29045 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
29046 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
29047 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
29048 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29049 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
29050 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
29052 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
29053 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
29054 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
29055 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
29056 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
29057 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
29059 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
29060 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
29061 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
29063 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
29064 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
29065 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
29066 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
29067 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
29068 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
29069 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
29070 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha.
29071 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
29072 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
29073 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
29074 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
29075 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
29079 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
29080 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
29081 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
29082 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
29083 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
29084 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
29085 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
29086 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
29087 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
29088 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
29089 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
29090 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
29092 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29094 o Minor features (log subsystem):
29095 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
29096 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
29097 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
29099 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
29100 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
29102 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
29103 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
29104 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
29107 o Packaging changes:
29108 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
29109 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
29110 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
29113 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
29114 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
29115 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
29116 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
29117 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
29118 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
29121 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
29122 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
29123 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
29124 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
29125 the rest of bug 1074.
29126 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
29127 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
29128 Found by "piebeer".
29129 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
29130 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
29131 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
29132 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
29133 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
29134 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
29135 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29138 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
29140 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29143 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
29144 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
29145 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
29146 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
29147 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
29148 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
29149 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
29150 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
29151 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
29152 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
29153 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29155 o Packaging changes:
29156 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
29157 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
29158 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
29159 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
29160 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
29161 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
29164 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
29165 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
29166 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
29167 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
29168 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
29169 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
29172 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
29173 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
29174 Found by "piebeer".
29175 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
29176 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
29177 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
29178 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
29181 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
29183 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
29184 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
29185 Implements ticket 2432.
29188 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
29189 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
29190 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
29193 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
29194 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
29195 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
29196 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
29197 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
29198 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
29200 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
29201 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
29202 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
29203 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
29205 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
29206 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
29207 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
29208 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
29209 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
29210 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
29211 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
29212 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
29214 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
29215 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
29216 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
29217 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
29218 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
29219 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
29220 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
29221 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
29222 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
29223 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
29224 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
29225 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
29226 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
29227 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
29230 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
29231 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
29232 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
29233 bug reported by doorss.
29234 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
29235 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
29236 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29237 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
29238 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
29240 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
29241 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
29242 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
29243 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
29244 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
29246 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
29247 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29248 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
29250 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
29251 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
29252 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
29253 Automake 1.7 or later.
29254 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
29255 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
29256 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
29257 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
29259 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
29260 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
29261 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
29264 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
29265 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
29266 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
29267 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
29269 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
29270 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
29271 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
29272 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
29273 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
29274 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
29275 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
29276 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
29277 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
29279 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
29280 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
29281 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
29284 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
29285 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
29286 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
29287 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
29288 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
29289 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
29290 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
29291 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
29292 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
29293 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
29294 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
29295 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
29296 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
29298 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
29299 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
29303 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
29304 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
29305 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
29306 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
29307 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
29309 o Major bugfixes (security):
29310 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
29311 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
29312 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
29314 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
29315 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
29316 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
29317 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
29318 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
29319 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
29320 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
29321 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
29323 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
29324 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
29325 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
29326 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
29327 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
29328 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
29329 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
29330 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
29331 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
29332 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
29333 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
29334 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
29335 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
29336 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
29339 o Minor bugfixes (other):
29340 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
29341 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
29342 bug reported by doorss.
29343 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
29344 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
29345 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29346 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
29347 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
29349 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
29350 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
29351 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
29352 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
29353 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
29354 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
29355 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
29356 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
29357 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
29360 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29361 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
29364 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
29365 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
29366 Automake 1.7 or later.
29369 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
29370 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
29371 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
29372 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
29373 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
29376 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
29377 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
29378 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
29379 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
29380 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
29381 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
29382 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
29383 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
29384 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
29385 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
29386 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
29388 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
29389 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
29390 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
29391 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
29393 o Directory authority changes:
29394 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
29397 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
29398 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
29399 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
29400 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
29401 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
29402 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
29403 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
29404 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
29405 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
29408 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29409 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
29410 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
29411 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
29412 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
29413 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
29414 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
29415 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
29416 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
29417 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
29421 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
29422 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
29423 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
29424 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
29428 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
29429 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
29430 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
29431 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
29433 o Directory authority changes:
29434 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
29437 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29440 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
29441 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
29442 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
29443 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
29444 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
29447 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
29448 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
29449 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
29450 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
29451 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
29452 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
29453 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
29454 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
29455 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
29456 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
29457 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
29458 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
29459 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
29460 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
29461 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
29462 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
29463 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
29464 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
29465 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
29466 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
29467 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
29468 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
29469 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
29472 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
29473 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
29474 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
29475 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
29477 o New directory authorities:
29478 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
29482 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
29483 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
29484 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
29486 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
29487 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
29488 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
29489 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
29490 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
29491 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
29493 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
29494 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
29495 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
29498 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
29499 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
29500 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
29501 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
29502 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
29503 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
29504 Patch from mingw-san.
29507 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
29508 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
29509 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
29510 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
29511 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
29512 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
29515 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
29516 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
29517 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
29520 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
29521 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
29522 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
29523 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
29524 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
29527 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
29528 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
29529 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
29530 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
29531 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
29532 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
29533 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
29534 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
29535 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
29538 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
29539 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
29540 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
29541 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
29542 to a stable release.
29545 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
29546 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
29547 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
29548 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
29549 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
29550 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
29551 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
29552 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
29553 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
29554 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
29555 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
29556 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
29557 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
29558 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
29559 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
29560 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
29561 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
29562 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
29563 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
29564 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
29565 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
29566 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
29567 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
29568 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
29569 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
29570 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
29571 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
29572 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
29573 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
29574 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
29575 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
29578 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
29579 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
29580 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
29581 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
29582 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
29583 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
29584 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
29585 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
29586 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
29587 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
29588 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
29589 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
29590 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
29591 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29592 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
29593 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
29594 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
29596 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
29597 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
29598 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
29599 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
29600 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
29602 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
29603 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
29604 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
29605 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
29608 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
29609 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
29610 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
29611 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
29612 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
29613 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
29614 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
29615 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29617 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29618 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
29619 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
29620 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
29621 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
29622 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
29623 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
29624 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
29625 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
29626 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
29627 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
29628 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
29629 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
29630 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
29631 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
29634 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
29635 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
29636 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
29637 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
29638 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
29639 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
29640 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
29641 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
29642 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
29645 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
29646 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
29647 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
29648 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
29649 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
29651 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
29652 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
29653 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
29654 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
29655 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
29656 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
29657 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
29658 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
29659 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
29660 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
29661 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
29662 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
29663 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
29664 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
29666 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
29667 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
29669 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
29670 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
29671 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
29672 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
29673 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
29674 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
29675 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
29676 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
29677 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
29678 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
29679 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
29680 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
29681 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
29682 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
29683 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
29684 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
29685 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
29686 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
29688 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
29689 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
29690 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
29691 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
29692 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
29693 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
29694 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
29695 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
29696 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
29697 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
29698 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
29699 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
29700 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
29702 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
29703 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
29704 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
29705 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
29708 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
29709 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
29710 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
29711 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
29712 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
29713 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
29714 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
29715 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
29716 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
29717 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
29718 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
29719 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
29720 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
29721 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
29722 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
29723 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
29724 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
29725 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
29726 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
29729 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
29730 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
29731 based on the time during which we were active and not in
29732 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
29733 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
29734 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
29735 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
29736 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
29738 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
29739 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
29740 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
29741 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
29742 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
29743 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
29744 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
29745 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
29746 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
29747 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
29750 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
29751 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
29752 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
29753 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
29755 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
29756 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
29757 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
29758 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
29759 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
29760 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
29761 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
29762 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
29763 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
29764 the longest-lived bug prize.
29765 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
29766 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
29767 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
29768 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
29769 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
29770 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
29772 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
29773 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
29774 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
29775 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
29776 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
29777 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
29781 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29782 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
29783 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
29784 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
29785 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
29786 got suppressed since the last warning.
29787 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
29788 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
29789 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
29790 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
29791 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
29792 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
29793 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
29794 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
29795 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
29796 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
29797 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
29798 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
29799 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
29800 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
29801 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
29802 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
29803 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
29804 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
29805 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
29807 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
29808 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
29809 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
29811 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
29812 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
29813 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
29814 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
29815 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
29816 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
29817 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
29818 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
29819 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
29820 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
29821 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
29822 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
29823 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
29824 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
29825 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
29827 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
29828 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
29829 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
29830 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
29831 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
29832 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29833 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
29835 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
29836 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
29837 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
29838 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
29839 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
29842 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
29843 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
29844 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
29845 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
29846 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
29847 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
29848 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
29849 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
29850 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
29851 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
29852 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
29853 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
29854 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
29855 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
29856 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
29857 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
29858 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
29859 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
29862 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
29865 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
29866 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
29867 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
29868 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
29869 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
29873 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
29874 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
29875 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
29876 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
29877 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
29878 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
29879 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
29880 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
29881 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
29882 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
29883 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
29884 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
29885 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
29886 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
29887 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
29888 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
29889 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
29892 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
29893 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
29894 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
29895 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
29896 they first get the Guard flag.
29897 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
29901 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29902 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
29903 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
29904 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
29905 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
29906 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
29907 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
29908 Patch from mingw-san.
29909 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
29910 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
29912 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
29913 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
29914 Implements enhancement 1790.
29916 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
29917 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
29918 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
29919 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
29920 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
29921 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
29922 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
29923 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
29924 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
29925 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
29926 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
29927 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
29928 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
29929 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
29930 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
29931 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
29932 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
29933 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
29934 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
29935 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
29937 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
29938 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
29939 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
29940 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
29941 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
29942 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
29943 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
29944 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
29945 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
29946 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
29947 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
29948 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
29949 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
29951 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
29952 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
29953 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
29954 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
29955 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
29956 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
29958 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
29959 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
29960 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
29961 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
29962 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
29963 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
29964 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
29965 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
29966 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
29967 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
29968 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
29969 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
29971 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
29972 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
29973 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
29974 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
29975 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
29976 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
29977 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
29979 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
29981 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
29982 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
29983 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
29984 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
29985 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
29986 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
29988 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29989 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
29990 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
29991 structures and defines in or.h for now.
29992 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
29993 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
29994 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
29995 statistics code to be more easily tested.
29996 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
29997 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
29998 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
30001 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
30002 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
30003 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
30004 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
30005 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
30006 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
30010 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
30011 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
30012 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
30013 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
30014 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
30015 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
30016 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
30017 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
30018 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
30019 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
30020 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
30021 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
30022 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
30024 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
30025 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
30026 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
30027 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
30028 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
30029 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
30030 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
30031 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
30032 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
30033 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
30034 can be controlled by the consensus.
30037 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
30038 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
30039 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
30040 more accurate data for many African countries.
30041 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
30042 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
30043 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
30044 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
30045 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
30046 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
30047 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
30048 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
30049 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
30050 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
30051 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
30052 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
30054 o New directory authorities:
30055 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
30059 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
30060 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
30061 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
30062 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
30063 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
30064 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
30065 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
30066 what should go in a patch.
30067 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
30068 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
30069 over our stored history.
30070 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
30071 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
30072 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
30073 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
30074 file. Fixes bug 1296.
30075 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
30076 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
30077 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
30081 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
30083 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
30084 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
30085 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
30086 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
30087 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
30088 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
30089 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
30090 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
30091 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
30092 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
30093 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
30094 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30095 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
30096 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
30097 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
30098 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
30099 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
30100 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
30101 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
30102 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
30103 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
30104 two-hop circuits are actually created.
30105 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
30106 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
30107 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
30108 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
30111 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
30112 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
30113 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
30114 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
30115 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
30117 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
30118 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
30121 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
30122 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
30123 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
30124 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
30125 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
30126 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
30127 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
30128 their directory fetches over TLS).
30129 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
30130 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
30131 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
30132 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
30133 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
30134 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
30135 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
30136 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
30139 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
30140 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
30144 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
30145 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30146 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
30147 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
30148 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
30149 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
30150 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30153 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
30154 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
30155 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
30156 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
30157 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
30160 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
30161 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
30162 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
30163 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
30164 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
30165 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
30166 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
30167 their directory fetches over TLS).
30170 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
30171 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
30173 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
30174 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
30175 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
30176 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
30177 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
30178 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
30179 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
30180 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
30181 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
30182 hour of their uptime.
30185 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
30186 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
30187 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
30191 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
30192 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
30193 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
30194 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
30195 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
30196 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
30198 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
30199 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
30200 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
30202 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
30203 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
30207 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
30208 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
30209 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
30213 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
30214 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
30215 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
30218 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
30219 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
30220 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
30221 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
30222 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
30223 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
30224 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
30225 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
30226 about the option without breaking older ones.
30227 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
30228 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
30229 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
30230 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
30233 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
30234 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
30235 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
30236 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
30238 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
30239 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
30240 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
30243 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
30244 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
30246 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
30247 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
30248 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
30249 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
30250 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
30251 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
30252 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
30253 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
30254 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
30255 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
30256 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
30259 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
30260 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30261 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
30262 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
30263 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
30264 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
30265 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30268 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
30269 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
30270 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
30271 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
30272 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
30273 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
30276 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
30277 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
30278 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
30279 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
30281 o Major features (performance):
30282 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
30283 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
30284 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
30285 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
30286 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
30287 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
30288 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
30290 o Minor features (performance):
30291 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
30292 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
30293 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
30294 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
30295 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
30299 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
30300 speeds up the build considerably.
30302 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
30303 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
30304 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
30305 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
30306 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
30307 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
30308 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
30309 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
30311 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
30312 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
30313 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
30315 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
30316 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
30317 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
30318 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
30320 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30321 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
30322 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
30323 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
30324 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
30325 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
30328 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
30329 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
30330 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
30332 o Directory authority changes:
30333 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
30334 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
30335 service directory authority) from the list.
30338 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
30339 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
30340 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
30341 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
30342 libraries in a security patch.
30343 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
30344 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
30345 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
30346 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
30348 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
30349 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
30350 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
30351 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
30352 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
30353 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
30354 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
30357 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
30358 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
30359 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
30360 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
30361 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
30362 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
30363 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
30364 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
30365 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
30366 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
30367 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
30368 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
30369 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
30371 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
30372 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
30373 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
30374 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
30375 control-spec.txt said they were.
30376 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
30377 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
30378 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
30379 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
30380 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30382 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30383 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
30384 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
30385 produce nicer HTML.
30386 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
30387 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
30388 iPhone SDK versions.
30389 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
30390 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
30391 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
30392 projects directory in svn.
30393 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
30394 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
30395 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
30396 high latency links.
30399 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
30400 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
30401 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
30403 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
30404 to the circuit build timeout.
30405 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
30406 arguments we do not recognize.
30407 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
30408 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
30409 open() without checking it.
30412 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
30413 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
30414 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
30415 several minor potential security bugs.
30418 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
30419 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
30420 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
30421 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
30422 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
30423 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
30424 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
30427 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
30428 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
30430 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
30431 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
30432 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
30433 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
30437 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
30438 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
30442 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
30443 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
30444 customized patches to run/build.
30447 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
30448 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
30449 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
30452 o Major bugfixes (performance):
30453 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
30454 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
30455 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
30456 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
30457 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
30458 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
30459 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
30462 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
30463 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
30464 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
30465 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
30466 libraries in a security patch.
30467 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
30468 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
30469 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
30470 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
30473 o Directory authority changes:
30474 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
30475 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
30476 service directory authority) from the list.
30479 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
30480 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
30483 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
30484 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
30485 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
30486 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
30487 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
30490 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
30491 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
30492 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
30496 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occurred during the
30497 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
30498 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
30499 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
30500 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
30503 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
30504 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
30505 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
30509 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
30510 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
30511 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
30512 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
30513 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
30515 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
30516 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
30518 o Directory authority changes:
30519 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
30522 o Major features (performance):
30523 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
30524 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
30525 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
30526 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
30527 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
30528 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
30529 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
30530 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
30531 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
30532 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
30533 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
30534 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
30535 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
30537 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
30538 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
30539 but never per-conn write limits.
30540 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
30541 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
30542 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
30543 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
30545 o Major features (relay selection options):
30546 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
30547 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
30548 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
30549 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
30550 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
30551 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
30552 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
30554 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
30555 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
30557 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
30558 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
30559 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
30560 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
30561 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
30562 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
30563 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
30564 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
30565 the network changes.
30568 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
30569 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
30570 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30573 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
30574 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
30575 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
30576 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
30577 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
30578 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
30579 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
30580 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
30581 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
30582 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
30583 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
30584 generated while acting as a relay.
30585 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
30586 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
30587 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
30588 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
30589 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
30590 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
30592 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
30593 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
30594 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
30595 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
30596 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
30597 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
30600 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
30601 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
30602 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
30604 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
30605 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
30606 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
30608 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
30609 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
30611 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
30612 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
30613 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
30615 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
30616 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
30619 o Minor bugfixes (other):
30620 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
30621 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
30622 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
30623 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
30624 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
30625 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
30626 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
30627 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
30629 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
30632 o Removed features:
30633 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
30634 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
30635 hidden service usage.
30638 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
30639 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
30640 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
30641 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
30642 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
30644 o Directory authority changes:
30645 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
30649 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
30650 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
30651 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30654 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
30655 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
30656 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
30657 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
30658 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
30661 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
30662 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
30663 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
30664 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
30665 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
30666 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
30667 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
30670 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
30671 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
30672 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
30673 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
30674 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
30675 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
30677 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
30678 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
30681 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
30682 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
30683 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
30684 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
30685 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
30686 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
30689 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
30690 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
30691 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
30693 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
30694 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
30695 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
30696 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
30697 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
30698 download consensus + microdescriptors".
30699 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
30700 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
30701 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
30702 hash algorithm in the future.
30703 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
30704 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
30705 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
30706 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
30707 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
30708 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
30709 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
30710 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
30711 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
30714 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
30715 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
30716 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
30717 won't work unless we say we are.
30720 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
30721 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
30722 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
30723 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
30724 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
30725 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
30726 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
30727 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
30728 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
30729 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
30730 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
30731 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
30732 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
30733 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
30734 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
30735 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
30736 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
30737 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
30738 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
30739 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
30740 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
30741 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
30744 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
30745 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
30746 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
30747 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
30749 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
30750 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
30752 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
30753 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
30754 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
30755 in the Vidalia Settings window.
30758 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
30759 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
30760 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
30761 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
30762 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
30764 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
30765 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
30767 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
30768 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
30769 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
30772 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
30773 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
30774 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
30776 o New directory authorities:
30777 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
30779 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
30782 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
30783 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
30785 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
30786 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
30787 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
30788 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
30789 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
30790 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
30791 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30792 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
30793 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
30794 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
30795 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
30796 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
30797 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
30798 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
30799 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
30800 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
30801 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
30803 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
30804 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
30805 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
30807 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
30808 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
30812 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
30813 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
30814 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
30815 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
30816 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
30819 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
30820 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
30823 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
30825 o Directory authorities:
30826 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
30830 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
30831 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
30832 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
30833 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
30834 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
30837 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
30838 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
30839 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
30840 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
30842 o New directory authorities:
30843 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
30846 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
30847 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
30848 SSL handshake issues.
30849 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
30850 during the TLS handshake.
30851 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
30852 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
30853 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
30854 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
30855 none of which are very big.
30858 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
30860 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
30861 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
30862 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
30863 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
30864 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
30865 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
30866 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
30867 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
30870 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30871 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
30872 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
30873 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
30874 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
30877 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
30878 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
30881 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
30882 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
30885 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
30886 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
30887 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
30890 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
30891 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
30892 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
30893 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
30894 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
30895 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
30898 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
30899 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
30900 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
30901 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
30902 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
30903 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
30904 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
30905 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
30906 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
30907 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
30908 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
30909 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
30910 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
30911 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
30912 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
30913 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
30914 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
30915 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
30918 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
30919 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
30923 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
30924 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
30925 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
30926 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
30927 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
30928 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
30929 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30930 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
30931 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
30932 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
30933 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30934 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
30935 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
30936 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
30937 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
30938 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
30939 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
30940 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
30941 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
30942 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
30943 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
30945 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
30946 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
30947 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
30948 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30949 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
30950 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
30952 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
30953 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
30954 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
30957 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
30958 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
30959 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
30960 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
30961 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
30962 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
30965 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
30966 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
30967 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
30968 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
30969 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
30972 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
30973 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
30974 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
30977 o New directory authorities:
30978 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
30982 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
30983 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
30984 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
30985 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
30986 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
30989 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
30990 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
30991 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
30992 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
30993 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
30996 o New options for gathering stats safely:
30997 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
30998 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
30999 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
31000 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
31001 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
31002 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
31003 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
31004 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
31005 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
31007 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
31008 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
31009 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
31010 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
31012 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
31013 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
31014 their extra-info documents.
31017 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
31018 source files Tor was built with.
31019 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
31020 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
31021 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
31022 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
31023 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
31024 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
31026 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
31027 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
31028 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
31029 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
31030 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
31032 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
31033 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
31036 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
31037 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
31038 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
31039 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
31040 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
31042 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
31043 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
31045 o Deprecated and removed features:
31046 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
31047 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
31048 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
31049 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
31050 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
31051 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
31052 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
31053 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
31055 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
31056 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
31057 via application-level web tricks.
31059 o Packaging changes:
31060 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
31061 installer bundles. See
31062 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
31063 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
31064 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
31065 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
31066 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
31067 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
31068 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
31069 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
31070 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
31071 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
31072 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
31073 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
31076 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
31077 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
31078 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
31081 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
31082 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
31083 part of patch provided by "optimist".
31086 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
31087 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
31088 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
31089 and confuse fewer users.
31092 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
31093 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
31094 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
31095 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
31096 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
31097 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
31098 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
31101 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
31102 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
31103 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
31104 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
31105 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
31106 other features and bug fixes.
31109 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
31112 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
31113 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
31114 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
31115 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
31116 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
31119 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
31120 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
31121 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
31122 failure message (oops).
31125 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
31126 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
31127 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
31128 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
31132 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
31133 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
31134 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
31135 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
31136 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
31137 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
31138 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31139 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
31140 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
31141 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
31142 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
31143 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
31144 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
31145 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
31146 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
31149 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
31150 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
31151 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
31152 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
31153 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
31154 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
31155 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
31156 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
31157 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
31158 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
31159 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
31160 Workaround for bug 1024.
31161 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
31165 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
31166 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
31167 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
31170 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
31172 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
31173 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
31174 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
31175 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
31176 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
31179 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
31180 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
31181 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
31182 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
31183 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
31184 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
31185 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
31186 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
31187 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
31188 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
31191 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
31192 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
31193 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
31194 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
31195 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
31196 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
31197 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
31198 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
31201 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
31202 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
31203 a bunch of minor bugs.
31206 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
31207 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
31208 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
31210 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
31211 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
31212 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
31213 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
31215 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
31219 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
31220 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
31221 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
31223 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
31224 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
31226 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
31227 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
31229 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
31230 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
31231 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
31232 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
31233 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
31234 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
31235 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
31236 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
31238 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
31239 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
31240 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
31242 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
31243 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
31244 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
31245 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
31246 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
31250 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
31251 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
31252 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
31253 of more minor bugs.
31255 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
31256 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
31257 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
31258 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
31260 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
31261 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
31262 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
31263 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
31264 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
31265 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
31266 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
31267 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
31268 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
31269 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
31270 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
31271 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31272 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
31273 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
31274 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
31275 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
31276 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
31278 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
31279 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
31280 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
31281 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31283 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
31284 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
31285 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
31288 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
31289 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
31290 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
31291 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
31292 addresses to fall out of the directory.
31295 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
31296 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
31297 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
31298 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
31300 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
31301 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
31302 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
31303 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
31304 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
31305 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
31306 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
31307 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
31308 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
31309 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
31310 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
31311 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
31312 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
31313 patch by Sebastian.
31314 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
31315 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
31318 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
31319 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
31320 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
31321 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
31322 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
31323 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
31325 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
31326 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
31327 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
31328 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
31329 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
31331 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
31334 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
31335 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
31337 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
31338 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
31339 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31340 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31341 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
31342 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
31344 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
31345 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31346 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
31347 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
31348 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
31349 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
31350 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
31351 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
31352 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
31353 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
31354 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
31355 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
31359 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
31360 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
31361 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
31364 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
31365 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
31366 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31368 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
31369 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
31370 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
31371 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
31372 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
31373 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
31374 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
31375 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
31376 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
31377 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
31378 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
31379 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
31380 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
31381 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
31382 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
31383 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
31384 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
31385 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
31386 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
31387 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
31388 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
31389 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
31390 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
31391 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
31392 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
31393 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
31395 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
31396 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
31397 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
31398 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
31399 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
31400 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
31401 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
31402 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
31403 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
31404 of 0. Suggested by lark.
31406 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
31407 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
31408 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
31409 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
31410 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
31413 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
31415 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
31416 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
31417 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
31418 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
31421 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
31422 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
31423 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
31424 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
31425 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
31427 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
31428 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
31429 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
31430 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
31433 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
31434 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
31435 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
31436 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
31437 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
31438 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
31439 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
31440 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
31443 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
31444 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
31445 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
31446 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
31449 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
31450 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
31451 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
31452 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
31453 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
31454 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
31457 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
31458 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
31459 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
31460 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
31461 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
31462 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
31465 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
31466 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
31467 reported by Matt Edman.
31468 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
31470 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
31471 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
31472 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
31473 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
31475 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
31476 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
31477 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
31478 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
31479 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
31480 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
31481 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
31482 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
31483 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
31484 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
31485 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
31486 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
31487 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
31488 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
31489 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
31490 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
31491 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
31492 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
31493 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31496 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
31497 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
31498 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
31499 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
31502 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
31503 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
31504 the letter of C99's alias rules.
31507 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
31508 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
31509 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
31510 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
31512 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
31513 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
31514 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
31517 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
31518 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
31521 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
31522 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
31523 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
31524 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
31525 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
31526 reported by "wood".
31527 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
31528 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
31529 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
31530 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
31531 identify a connection.
31532 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
31533 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
31534 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
31535 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
31536 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
31537 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
31538 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
31539 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
31540 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
31541 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
31543 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
31544 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
31545 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
31546 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
31547 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
31548 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
31549 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
31552 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
31553 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
31555 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
31556 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
31557 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
31558 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
31559 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
31560 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
31561 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
31562 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
31564 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
31565 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
31566 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
31567 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
31568 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
31569 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
31570 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
31571 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
31572 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
31573 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
31574 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
31575 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
31576 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
31577 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
31578 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
31579 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
31580 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
31581 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
31582 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
31583 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
31584 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
31585 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
31586 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
31587 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
31588 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
31589 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
31590 840. Patch from rovv.
31591 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
31592 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
31593 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
31595 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
31596 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
31597 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
31598 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
31599 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
31600 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
31601 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
31603 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
31604 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
31605 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
31608 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
31609 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
31611 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
31612 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
31613 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
31614 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
31615 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
31616 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
31617 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
31618 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
31619 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
31621 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
31623 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
31624 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
31628 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
31629 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
31630 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
31631 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
31632 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
31633 have had some time to upgrade.)
31636 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
31637 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
31640 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
31641 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
31642 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
31643 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
31644 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
31647 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
31648 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
31650 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
31651 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
31652 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
31653 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
31654 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
31655 entirely. Patch from coderman.
31658 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
31659 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
31660 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
31661 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
31662 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
31663 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
31664 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
31668 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
31669 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
31670 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
31671 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
31672 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
31673 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
31674 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
31677 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
31678 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
31679 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
31680 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
31681 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
31683 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
31684 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
31685 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
31686 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
31687 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
31688 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
31689 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
31690 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
31691 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
31692 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
31696 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
31697 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
31698 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
31700 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
31701 without support for deprecated functions.
31702 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
31704 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
31705 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
31706 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
31707 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
31708 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
31709 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
31710 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
31711 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
31712 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
31713 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
31714 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
31715 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
31716 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
31717 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
31718 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
31719 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
31720 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
31721 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
31722 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
31723 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
31724 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
31725 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
31726 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
31728 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
31729 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
31730 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
31731 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
31732 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
31733 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
31735 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
31736 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
31737 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
31738 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
31739 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
31741 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
31742 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
31743 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
31745 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
31746 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
31749 o Deprecated and removed features:
31750 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
31751 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
31752 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
31755 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31756 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
31757 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
31758 with log.h on Android.
31759 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
31760 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
31763 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
31764 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
31766 o New directory authorities:
31767 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
31771 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
31772 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
31773 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
31774 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
31775 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
31776 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31779 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
31780 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
31781 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
31782 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
31783 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
31784 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
31785 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
31786 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
31787 reported by "wood".
31788 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
31789 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
31790 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
31791 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
31794 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
31795 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
31797 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
31798 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
31799 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
31800 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
31801 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
31802 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
31803 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
31804 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
31805 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
31806 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
31807 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
31808 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
31809 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
31810 Implements proposal 148.
31811 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
31812 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
31813 system to do it for us.
31814 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
31815 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
31816 this fix will be slightly helpful.
31817 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
31818 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
31819 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
31820 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
31821 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
31822 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
31823 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
31824 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
31825 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
31828 o Minor features (controller):
31829 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
31830 been fetched and validated.
31831 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
31832 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
31833 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
31834 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
31835 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
31836 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
31839 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
31840 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
31841 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
31842 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
31843 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
31845 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
31846 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
31847 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
31848 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
31849 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
31850 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
31851 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
31852 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
31853 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
31855 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
31856 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
31857 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
31858 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
31859 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
31860 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
31861 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
31862 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
31864 o Deprecated and removed features:
31865 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
31867 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
31868 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
31869 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
31871 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31872 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
31873 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
31875 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
31876 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
31877 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
31878 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
31879 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
31880 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
31883 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
31884 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
31885 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
31886 fixes a variety of other issues.
31889 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
31890 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
31891 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
31892 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
31895 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
31896 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
31897 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
31898 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
31901 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
31902 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31903 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
31907 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
31909 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
31910 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
31911 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
31912 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
31913 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
31914 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
31915 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
31917 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
31918 rest, and don't automatically fail.
31919 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
31920 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31921 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
31922 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
31924 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
31925 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
31926 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
31927 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
31928 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
31929 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
31930 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
31931 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
31932 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
31933 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
31935 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
31939 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
31940 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
31941 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
31943 o Minor features (controller):
31944 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
31948 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
31949 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
31950 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
31951 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
31952 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
31953 variety of other issues.
31956 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
31957 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
31958 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
31959 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
31960 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
31961 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
31962 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
31963 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
31964 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
31965 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
31966 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
31967 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
31970 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
31971 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31973 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
31974 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
31975 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
31976 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
31977 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
31978 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
31979 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
31980 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
31981 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
31982 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
31983 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
31984 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
31985 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
31986 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
31987 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
31991 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
31992 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
31993 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
31994 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
31995 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
31996 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
31997 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
31998 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
31999 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
32000 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
32001 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
32002 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
32003 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
32004 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
32005 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
32006 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
32007 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
32008 list. It has been gone for many months.
32009 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
32010 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
32011 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
32014 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
32015 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
32016 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
32019 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
32020 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
32021 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
32022 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
32023 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
32024 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
32025 variety of other issues.
32028 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
32029 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
32030 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
32031 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
32032 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
32033 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
32034 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
32035 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
32036 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
32037 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
32038 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
32039 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
32040 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
32041 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
32044 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
32045 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
32046 Suggested by Lucky Green.
32047 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
32048 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
32049 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
32050 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
32051 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
32052 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
32054 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
32055 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
32057 o Hidden service performance improvements:
32058 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
32059 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
32060 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
32061 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
32062 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
32063 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
32064 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
32065 faster after restart.
32068 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
32069 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
32070 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
32071 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
32072 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
32073 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
32074 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
32075 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
32076 840. Patch from rovv.
32077 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
32078 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
32079 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
32080 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
32081 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
32082 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
32083 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
32084 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
32085 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
32087 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
32088 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
32089 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
32090 have already been marked for close.
32091 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
32092 introduction points.
32093 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
32094 memory performance during directory parsing.
32095 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
32096 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
32097 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
32098 because of a pending download.
32101 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
32102 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
32103 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
32104 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
32107 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
32108 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
32109 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
32110 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
32111 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
32112 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
32113 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
32114 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
32115 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
32116 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
32117 lookups more reliable.
32118 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
32119 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
32120 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
32121 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
32122 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
32123 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
32124 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
32127 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
32128 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
32129 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
32130 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
32131 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
32132 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
32133 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
32134 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
32135 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
32136 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
32137 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
32139 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
32140 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
32141 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
32142 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
32143 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
32144 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
32145 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
32146 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
32147 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
32150 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
32151 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
32152 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
32153 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
32154 locked down these days.
32155 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
32156 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
32157 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
32158 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
32159 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
32161 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
32162 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
32163 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
32164 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
32165 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
32166 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
32167 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
32168 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
32169 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
32170 people find host:port too confusing.
32171 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
32172 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
32173 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
32176 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
32178 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
32179 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
32180 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
32181 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
32182 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
32184 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
32185 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
32186 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
32187 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
32188 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
32189 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
32190 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
32191 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
32192 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
32193 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
32194 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
32195 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
32197 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
32198 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
32199 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
32200 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
32201 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
32202 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
32203 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
32204 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
32205 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
32207 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
32208 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
32209 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
32210 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
32211 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
32212 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
32213 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
32214 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
32215 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
32216 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
32217 bug 820, reported by seeess.
32218 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
32219 list. It has been gone for many months.
32221 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32222 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
32223 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
32224 actual mistakes we're making here.
32225 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
32226 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
32227 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
32228 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
32231 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
32232 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
32233 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
32234 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
32237 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
32238 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
32239 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
32240 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
32241 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
32242 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
32244 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
32245 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
32246 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
32247 pointed out by rovv.
32250 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
32251 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32252 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
32253 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
32254 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
32255 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
32256 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
32257 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
32258 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
32259 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32260 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
32261 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
32262 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
32263 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
32264 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
32265 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
32266 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
32267 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
32268 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
32269 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
32270 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
32273 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
32274 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
32275 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
32276 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
32277 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
32278 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
32279 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
32282 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
32284 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
32285 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
32286 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
32287 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
32288 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
32289 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
32290 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
32292 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
32293 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
32294 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
32295 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
32296 known descriptor before building circuits.
32298 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
32299 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
32300 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
32301 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
32302 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
32303 identify a connection.
32304 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
32305 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
32306 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
32308 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
32309 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
32310 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
32311 pointed out by rovv.
32314 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
32315 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32316 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
32317 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
32318 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
32319 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
32320 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
32321 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
32322 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
32323 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
32324 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
32325 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
32326 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
32327 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
32328 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32331 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
32332 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
32333 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
32334 answer sections match.
32335 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
32336 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
32339 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
32340 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
32343 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
32344 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
32345 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
32347 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
32348 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
32349 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
32352 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
32353 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
32354 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
32355 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
32358 o Removed features:
32359 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
32360 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
32363 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
32364 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
32365 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
32366 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
32367 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
32368 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
32370 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
32371 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
32372 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
32375 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
32376 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
32377 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
32378 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
32379 be sent using an "early" cell.
32382 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
32383 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
32384 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
32385 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
32386 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
32387 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
32388 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
32391 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
32392 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
32393 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
32394 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
32395 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
32396 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
32397 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
32398 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
32399 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
32400 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
32401 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
32402 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
32403 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
32404 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
32405 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
32406 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
32409 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
32410 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
32411 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
32412 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
32413 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
32414 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
32415 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
32416 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
32417 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
32419 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
32420 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
32421 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
32422 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
32423 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
32426 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
32427 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
32428 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
32429 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
32431 o Removed features:
32432 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
32433 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
32437 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
32439 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
32440 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
32441 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
32444 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
32445 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
32446 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
32449 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
32450 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
32451 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
32452 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
32453 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32454 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
32455 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
32456 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
32457 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32458 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
32459 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
32460 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
32461 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
32462 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
32463 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
32464 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
32465 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
32466 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
32467 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
32468 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
32469 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
32470 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
32471 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
32474 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
32475 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
32477 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
32478 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
32479 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
32480 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
32481 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
32482 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
32483 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
32485 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
32486 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
32487 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
32488 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
32489 found by Geoff Goodell.
32492 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
32493 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
32494 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
32495 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
32496 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
32497 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
32500 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
32501 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
32502 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
32505 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
32506 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
32507 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
32508 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
32509 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32510 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
32511 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
32512 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
32513 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32514 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
32515 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
32516 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
32517 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
32518 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
32521 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
32522 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
32523 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
32525 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
32526 fingerprints with or without space.
32527 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
32528 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
32529 partway through and wants to catch up.
32530 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
32531 state to start out in.
32534 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
32535 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
32536 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
32537 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
32538 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
32541 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
32542 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
32543 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
32544 some of the connection attempts fail.
32545 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
32546 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
32547 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
32548 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
32549 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
32550 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
32552 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
32553 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
32554 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
32557 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
32558 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
32559 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
32560 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
32561 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
32562 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
32563 and adds a variety of smaller features.
32566 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
32567 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
32568 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
32569 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
32571 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
32572 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
32573 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
32574 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
32576 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
32577 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
32578 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
32579 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
32580 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
32581 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
32582 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
32585 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
32586 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
32587 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
32588 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
32589 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
32591 o Memory fixes and improvements:
32592 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
32593 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
32594 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
32595 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
32596 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
32597 on a typical directory cache.
32598 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
32599 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
32600 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
32601 and may reduce fragmentation.
32602 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
32603 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
32604 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
32606 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
32607 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
32608 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
32610 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
32611 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
32615 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
32616 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
32617 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
32618 done that for a long time.
32619 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
32620 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
32621 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
32622 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
32625 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
32626 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
32627 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
32628 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
32629 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
32630 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
32632 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
32633 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
32634 output to messages of warning and error severity.
32635 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
32636 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
32637 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
32638 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
32639 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
32640 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
32641 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
32642 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
32643 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
32644 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
32645 directory requests we should expect to see.
32646 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
32648 - Lots of new unit tests.
32649 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
32650 two parallel lists in lockstep.
32653 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
32654 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
32655 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
32658 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
32659 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
32660 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
32661 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
32662 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
32663 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
32664 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
32667 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
32668 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
32669 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
32673 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
32674 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
32675 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
32678 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
32679 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
32680 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
32682 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
32683 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
32685 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
32686 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
32687 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
32688 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
32689 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32690 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
32691 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
32693 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
32694 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
32695 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
32696 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
32697 - Fix compile on Windows.
32700 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
32701 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
32702 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
32703 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
32704 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
32705 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
32706 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
32709 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
32710 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
32713 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
32714 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
32715 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
32716 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
32718 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
32719 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
32720 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
32723 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
32724 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
32725 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
32726 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
32730 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
32731 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
32732 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
32733 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
32735 o Major security fixes:
32736 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
32737 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
32738 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
32739 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
32740 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
32743 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
32744 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32747 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
32748 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
32751 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
32752 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
32755 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
32756 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
32757 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
32760 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
32761 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32764 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
32765 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
32766 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
32767 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
32768 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
32770 o New directory authorities:
32771 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
32772 it has been down for months.
32773 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
32777 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
32778 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
32780 o Minor features (security):
32781 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
32782 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
32783 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
32786 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
32787 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
32788 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
32789 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
32790 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
32791 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
32792 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
32793 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
32794 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
32796 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
32797 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
32798 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
32799 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
32800 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
32801 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
32802 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32803 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
32804 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
32806 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
32807 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
32808 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
32809 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
32810 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
32811 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
32812 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
32813 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
32814 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
32815 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
32816 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32817 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
32818 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
32819 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
32820 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
32821 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
32822 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
32823 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
32824 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
32827 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
32828 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
32829 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
32830 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
32833 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
32834 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
32835 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
32836 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
32839 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
32840 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
32841 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
32842 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
32843 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
32846 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
32847 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
32848 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
32849 certain censored countries by default again.
32852 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
32853 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
32854 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
32855 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
32856 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
32857 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
32858 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
32859 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
32861 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
32862 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
32863 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
32864 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
32865 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
32866 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
32867 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
32868 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
32869 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
32870 a directory. Fix from lodger.
32872 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32873 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
32874 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
32875 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
32876 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
32877 RelayBandwidth* values.
32878 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
32879 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
32880 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
32881 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
32882 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
32883 get_interface_address6().
32884 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
32885 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
32886 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
32888 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
32889 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
32890 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
32891 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32892 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
32893 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
32894 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
32895 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
32896 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
32897 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32900 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
32901 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
32902 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
32905 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
32906 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
32907 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
32908 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
32909 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
32912 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
32913 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
32914 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
32915 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
32916 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
32917 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
32918 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
32919 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
32920 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
32923 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
32924 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
32925 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
32926 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
32929 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
32930 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
32931 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
32932 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
32933 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
32934 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
32935 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
32938 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
32939 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
32940 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
32941 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
32942 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
32943 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
32944 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
32946 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
32947 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
32948 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
32949 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
32950 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
32953 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
32954 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
32955 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
32956 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
32957 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
32958 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
32959 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32960 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
32961 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
32962 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
32963 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
32964 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
32965 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
32966 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
32967 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
32968 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32969 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
32970 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32971 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32972 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
32973 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
32974 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
32975 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
32976 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
32977 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
32978 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
32980 o Minor features (performance):
32981 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
32983 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
32984 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
32985 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
32986 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
32987 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
32988 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
32989 non-system include paths.
32990 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
32991 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
32994 o Minor features (other):
32995 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
32997 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
32998 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
32999 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
33002 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
33003 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
33004 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
33005 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
33007 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
33008 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
33009 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
33010 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
33011 Should fix bug 537.
33012 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
33013 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
33014 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33015 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
33016 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
33018 o Minor bugfixes (other):
33019 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
33020 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
33021 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
33022 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
33023 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
33024 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
33025 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
33026 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
33027 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
33028 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
33029 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
33030 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
33031 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
33032 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
33033 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33034 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
33035 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
33036 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
33037 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
33038 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
33039 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
33040 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
33041 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
33042 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
33045 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
33046 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
33047 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
33051 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
33052 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
33053 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
33054 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
33055 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
33058 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
33059 Tor's x509 certificates.
33062 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
33063 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
33064 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33065 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
33066 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
33067 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33069 o Minor features (security):
33070 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
33071 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
33073 o Minor features (directory authority):
33074 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
33075 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
33076 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
33077 bandwidthburst values.
33079 o Minor features (controller):
33080 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
33081 processes from running us out of memory.
33083 o Minor features (misc):
33084 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
33085 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
33086 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
33087 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
33089 o Deprecated features (controller):
33090 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
33091 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
33092 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
33095 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
33096 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
33098 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
33099 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
33100 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33101 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
33102 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
33103 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33104 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
33105 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
33107 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
33108 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33109 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
33110 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33111 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
33112 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
33113 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
33114 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
33116 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
33117 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
33118 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
33119 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
33120 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33121 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
33122 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33123 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
33124 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33125 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
33126 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
33127 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33129 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
33130 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
33132 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
33133 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
33134 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
33135 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
33136 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
33137 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
33140 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
33141 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
33142 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
33143 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
33144 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
33146 o New directory authorities:
33147 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
33151 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
33152 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
33153 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
33154 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
33155 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
33156 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
33157 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
33158 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
33162 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
33163 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
33164 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
33165 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
33166 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
33167 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
33168 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
33169 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
33170 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
33171 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
33174 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
33175 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
33176 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
33177 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
33181 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
33182 the request isn't encrypted.
33183 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
33184 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
33185 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
33186 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
33187 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
33190 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
33191 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
33194 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
33197 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
33198 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
33199 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
33201 o New directory authorities:
33202 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
33205 o Major performance improvements:
33206 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
33207 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
33208 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
33209 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
33210 memory fragmentation.
33213 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
33214 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
33215 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
33216 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
33217 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
33218 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
33219 bodies when they receive them.
33220 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
33221 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
33222 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
33224 o Minor performance improvements:
33225 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
33226 of them were actually distinct.
33227 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
33228 interested in a given message.
33231 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
33232 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
33233 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
33234 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
33235 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
33236 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
33237 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
33238 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
33239 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
33240 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
33241 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
33243 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
33244 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
33245 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
33246 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
33247 this country" and "1 person from this country".
33248 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
33249 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
33250 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
33251 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
33252 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
33254 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
33255 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
33256 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
33258 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
33259 but client versions are not.
33260 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
33261 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
33263 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
33264 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
33265 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
33266 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
33267 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
33269 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
33270 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
33271 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
33274 o Minor features (controller):
33275 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
33276 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
33277 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
33278 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
33280 o Minor features (directory authorities):
33281 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
33282 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
33283 running a test network on a single host.
33284 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
33285 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
33287 o Minor features (bridges):
33288 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
33289 unencrypted connections.
33291 o Minor features (other):
33292 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
33293 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
33294 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
33295 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
33298 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
33299 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
33300 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
33301 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
33304 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
33305 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
33306 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
33307 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
33308 on network address.
33311 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
33312 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
33313 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
33314 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
33315 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
33316 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
33317 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
33318 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
33319 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
33320 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
33321 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
33322 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
33325 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
33326 rebuild our server descriptor.
33327 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
33328 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
33329 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
33330 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
33331 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
33332 nonstandard integer types.
33333 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
33334 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
33335 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
33336 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
33337 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
33339 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
33340 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
33341 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
33342 when they receive them.
33343 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
33344 This includes some 64-bit systems.
33345 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
33346 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
33347 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
33348 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
33349 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
33350 router_get_by_hexdigest().
33351 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
33352 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
33356 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
33357 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
33358 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
33361 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
33362 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
33363 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
33364 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
33365 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
33366 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
33367 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
33368 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33371 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
33372 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
33373 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
33374 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
33376 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
33377 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
33380 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
33381 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
33384 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
33386 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
33387 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
33389 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
33390 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
33391 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
33392 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33393 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
33394 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
33395 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
33396 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
33397 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
33398 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
33402 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
33403 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
33404 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
33407 - Make the unit tests build again.
33408 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
33409 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
33410 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
33411 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
33412 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
33413 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33414 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
33415 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
33416 the next one as a duplicate.
33419 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
33420 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
33421 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
33422 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
33425 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
33426 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
33427 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
33430 o New directory authorities:
33431 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
33435 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
33436 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
33437 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
33438 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
33439 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
33440 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
33441 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
33443 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
33444 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
33446 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
33447 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
33448 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
33449 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
33450 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
33451 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
33453 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
33454 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
33455 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
33456 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
33457 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
33458 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33461 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
33462 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
33463 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
33464 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
33465 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
33466 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
33467 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
33468 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
33469 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
33470 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
33471 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
33472 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
33473 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
33474 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
33475 where Tor is blocked.
33476 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
33477 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
33478 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
33479 to a file periodically.
33480 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
33481 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
33482 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
33486 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
33487 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
33488 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
33489 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
33490 in the relevant networkstatus document.
33491 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
33492 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
33493 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
33494 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
33495 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
33496 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
33497 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
33498 by Karsten Loesing.
33499 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
33500 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
33501 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
33502 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
33503 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
33504 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33505 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
33506 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
33507 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
33508 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33509 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
33510 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
33511 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
33512 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33513 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
33514 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
33515 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
33516 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
33517 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
33518 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33519 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33520 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
33521 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33522 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
33523 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
33524 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
33525 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
33526 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33529 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
33530 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
33531 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
33532 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
33533 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
33534 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
33535 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
33536 even if your DirPort isn't on.
33537 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
33538 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
33539 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
33541 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
33542 multiple controller passwords.
33543 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
33544 router based on the router's purpose.
33545 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
33546 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
33547 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
33548 the approved-routers file.
33551 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
33552 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
33553 well as a few minor bugs.
33556 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
33557 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
33558 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
33560 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
33561 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
33562 rebuild our server descriptor.
33564 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
33565 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
33566 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
33567 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
33568 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
33569 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
33570 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
33571 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
33572 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
33573 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
33575 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
33576 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
33577 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
33578 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
33579 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
33580 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
33581 then be flexible about families.
33584 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
33585 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
33586 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
33590 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
33591 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
33592 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
33593 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
33594 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
33597 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
33598 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
33599 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
33600 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
33601 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33604 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
33605 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
33607 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
33608 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
33609 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
33610 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
33611 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
33612 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
33613 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
33615 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
33616 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
33617 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
33618 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
33621 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
33622 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
33625 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
33626 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
33627 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33630 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
33631 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
33632 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
33633 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
33634 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
33635 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
33636 addresses many more minor issues.
33638 o New directory authorities:
33639 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
33642 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
33643 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
33644 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
33645 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
33647 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
33648 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
33649 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
33650 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
33651 and are reaching it.
33652 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
33653 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
33654 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
33655 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
33656 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
33657 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
33660 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
33661 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
33663 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
33664 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
33665 no longer work for clients.
33666 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
33667 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
33669 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
33670 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
33671 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
33672 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
33673 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
33674 enough directory information to build a circuit.
33675 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
33676 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
33677 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
33678 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
33679 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
33680 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
33682 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
33683 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
33684 requests for all of them.
33685 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
33687 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
33688 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
33689 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
33691 o New requirements:
33692 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
33693 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
33697 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
33698 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
33699 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
33700 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
33701 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
33702 networkstatuses that we already have.
33703 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
33704 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
33705 we start knowing some directory caches.
33706 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
33707 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
33708 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
33709 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
33710 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
33711 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
33712 Good in combination with --hash-password.
33713 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
33714 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
33716 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
33717 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
33718 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
33720 o Minor features (bridges):
33721 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
33722 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
33723 back to trying the bridge directly.
33724 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
33725 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
33727 o Minor features (controller):
33728 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
33729 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
33730 report the value as a "minimum skew."
33733 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
33734 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
33738 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
33739 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
33740 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
33741 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
33742 reported by tup and ioerror.
33743 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
33744 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
33746 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
33747 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
33749 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
33750 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
33751 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
33753 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
33754 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
33755 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
33756 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
33757 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
33758 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
33759 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
33761 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
33762 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
33763 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
33765 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
33766 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
33767 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
33768 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
33769 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
33772 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
33773 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
33774 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
33775 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
33776 lists for a few hours each day.
33778 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
33779 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
33780 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
33781 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
33782 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
33783 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
33784 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
33785 rend_process_relay_cell().
33787 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
33788 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
33789 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
33790 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
33791 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
33792 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
33793 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
33794 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
33796 o Major bugfixes (other):
33797 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
33798 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
33799 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
33800 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
33801 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
33802 circuit cannibalization).
33803 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
33804 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
33805 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
33806 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
33807 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
33808 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
33811 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
33812 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
33814 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
33815 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
33816 absent. Resolves bug 467.
33817 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
33818 a way to trigger this remotely.)
33819 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
33820 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
33821 were reporting the dir port.)
33822 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
33823 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
33824 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
33825 the future. Fixes bug 434.
33826 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
33828 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
33829 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
33830 the onion key from getting rotated.
33831 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
33832 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
33833 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
33834 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
33835 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
33836 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
33837 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
33838 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
33839 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
33842 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
33843 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
33844 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
33845 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
33846 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
33847 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
33849 o Major features (directory system):
33850 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
33851 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
33852 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
33853 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
33854 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
33855 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
33856 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
33857 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
33858 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
33859 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
33860 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
33861 Partially implements proposal 122.
33862 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
33863 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
33866 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
33867 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
33868 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
33869 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
33871 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
33872 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
33873 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
33874 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
33875 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
33876 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33877 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
33878 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
33879 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33881 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
33882 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
33884 - Allow certificates to include an address.
33885 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
33886 and download operations.
33887 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
33888 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
33889 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
33890 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
33891 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
33892 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
33894 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
33895 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
33898 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
33899 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
33900 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
33901 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
33903 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
33904 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
33905 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
33907 o Minor features (performance):
33908 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
33909 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
33910 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
33911 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
33912 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
33913 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
33914 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
33917 o Minor features (compilation):
33918 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
33919 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
33921 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
33922 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
33923 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
33924 stick around indefinitely.
33925 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
33927 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
33928 v3 directory authority.
33929 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
33930 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
33932 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
33933 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
33934 "moria on moria:9031."
33935 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
33936 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
33937 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
33938 - When there's no consensus, we were forming a vote every 30
33939 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
33940 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
33941 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
33942 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
33944 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
33945 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
33946 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
33947 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
33948 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
33949 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
33950 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
33951 downloads than for other types.
33953 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
33954 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
33956 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
33957 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
33958 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33960 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
33961 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
33962 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33963 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
33964 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
33965 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
33966 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
33967 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
33969 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
33970 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
33971 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
33972 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
33973 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
33974 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
33975 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
33976 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33977 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
33978 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
33979 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
33981 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
33982 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
33985 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
33986 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
33987 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
33988 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
33989 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
33990 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
33991 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
33992 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
33993 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
33994 so that they all take the same named flags.
33997 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
33998 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
33999 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
34002 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
34003 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
34004 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
34005 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
34006 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
34007 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
34009 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
34010 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
34011 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
34012 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
34013 annotations along with descriptors.
34014 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
34015 source, and its purpose.
34016 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
34018 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
34019 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
34020 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
34021 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
34024 o Major features (directory authorities):
34025 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
34027 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
34028 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
34029 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
34030 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
34031 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
34032 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
34034 o Major features (v3 directory system):
34035 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
34036 and download the descriptors listed in them.
34037 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
34038 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
34039 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
34041 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
34042 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
34043 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
34044 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
34047 o Major bugfixes (performance):
34048 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
34049 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
34050 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
34051 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
34053 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
34054 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
34055 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
34056 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
34057 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
34058 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
34060 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
34061 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
34063 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
34064 certificate is requested.
34065 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
34066 certificate requests.
34068 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
34069 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
34070 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
34071 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
34074 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
34075 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
34076 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
34077 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34079 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
34080 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
34082 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
34083 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
34084 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
34085 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
34086 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
34087 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
34088 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
34089 downloads more sensible.
34090 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
34091 another when serving certificates.
34093 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
34094 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
34095 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
34096 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
34098 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
34099 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
34100 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
34102 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
34103 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
34105 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
34106 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
34107 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
34108 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
34109 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
34111 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
34112 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
34113 WARN-severity events.
34114 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
34115 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
34116 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
34118 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
34119 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
34120 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
34122 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
34123 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
34124 circuit cannibalization).
34126 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
34127 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
34128 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
34129 new module, networkstatus.c.
34130 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
34131 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
34132 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
34133 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
34134 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
34135 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
34136 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
34137 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
34138 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
34140 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
34142 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
34143 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
34146 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
34147 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
34148 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
34149 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
34151 o New directory authorities:
34152 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
34153 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
34155 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
34156 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
34157 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34159 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
34160 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
34161 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
34162 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
34163 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
34164 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
34165 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
34166 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
34167 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
34168 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
34169 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34171 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
34172 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
34173 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
34174 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
34175 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
34176 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
34177 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
34178 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
34179 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
34181 o Minor features (security):
34182 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
34183 address maps to an internal address space.
34184 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
34185 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
34187 o Minor features (guard nodes):
34188 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
34189 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
34190 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
34191 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
34193 o Minor features (speed):
34194 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
34195 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
34196 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
34197 on big-endian hosts.)
34199 o Minor features (controller):
34200 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
34201 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
34202 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
34203 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
34206 o Removed features:
34207 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
34208 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
34209 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
34210 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
34211 implementation of proposal 104.
34212 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
34213 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
34214 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
34215 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
34216 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
34217 patch from Karsten Loesing.
34218 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
34219 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
34222 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
34223 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
34224 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34225 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
34226 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34227 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
34228 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
34229 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
34230 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
34231 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34232 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
34233 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
34234 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
34235 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34236 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
34237 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
34238 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
34239 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34240 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
34241 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
34243 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
34244 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
34245 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
34247 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
34248 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
34249 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
34250 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
34253 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
34254 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
34255 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
34256 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
34257 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
34260 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
34261 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
34264 o Major bugfixes (security):
34265 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
34266 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
34267 become more of a headache than it's worth.
34269 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
34270 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
34271 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
34273 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
34274 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
34275 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
34276 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
34277 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
34278 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
34280 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
34281 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
34282 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
34283 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
34284 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
34286 o Minor features (controller):
34287 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
34288 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
34289 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
34290 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
34292 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
34293 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
34294 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
34295 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
34296 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
34297 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
34298 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
34299 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
34301 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
34302 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
34303 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
34304 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
34305 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
34306 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
34307 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
34308 if we ran off the end of the list.
34309 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
34310 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
34311 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
34312 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
34313 every time we change any piece of our config.
34314 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
34315 encourage people using them to stop.
34316 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
34318 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
34319 servers to choose a circuit.
34320 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
34321 unparseable piece of it.
34324 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
34325 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
34326 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
34327 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
34330 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
34331 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
34332 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
34333 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
34334 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
34336 o New directory authorities:
34337 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
34340 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
34341 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
34342 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
34343 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
34345 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
34346 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
34347 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
34349 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
34350 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
34351 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
34352 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
34353 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
34354 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
34356 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
34357 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
34358 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34361 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
34362 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
34363 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
34364 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
34368 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
34369 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
34370 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
34371 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
34373 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
34374 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
34376 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
34377 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
34378 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
34379 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
34380 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
34381 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
34382 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34383 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
34384 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34385 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
34388 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
34389 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
34390 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
34391 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
34392 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
34393 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
34395 o Removed features:
34396 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
34397 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
34398 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
34399 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
34402 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
34403 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
34404 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
34405 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
34406 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
34409 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
34410 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
34411 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
34412 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
34413 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
34414 reported by lodger.
34416 o Minor features (directory servers):
34417 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
34418 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
34420 o Minor features (directory voting):
34421 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
34424 o Minor features (security):
34425 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
34426 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
34427 encourage people using them to stop.
34429 o Minor features (controller):
34430 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
34431 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
34432 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
34433 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
34434 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
34435 cookie authentication file, and config option
34436 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
34438 o Minor features (unit testing):
34439 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
34440 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
34441 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
34442 logging for the unit tests.
34444 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
34445 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
34446 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
34447 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
34448 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
34449 every time we change any piece of our config.
34450 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
34451 the future. Fixes bug 434.
34452 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
34454 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
34455 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
34456 the onion key from getting rotated.
34457 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
34458 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
34459 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
34462 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
34463 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
34464 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
34466 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
34467 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
34468 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
34469 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
34472 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
34473 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
34474 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
34475 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
34476 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
34477 TorK, etc. Or worse.
34479 o Major security fixes:
34480 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
34481 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
34484 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
34485 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
34486 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
34487 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
34489 o Major security fixes:
34490 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
34491 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
34493 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
34494 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
34497 o Minor features (performance):
34498 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
34499 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
34500 performance-intensive.
34501 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
34502 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
34503 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
34504 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
34505 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
34506 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
34510 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
34511 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
34512 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
34513 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
34517 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
34518 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
34519 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
34520 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
34521 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
34523 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
34524 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
34525 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
34526 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
34528 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
34529 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
34530 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
34531 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
34532 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
34534 o Major features (experimental):
34535 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
34536 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
34537 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
34538 handling before it's ready for use.
34541 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
34542 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
34543 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
34544 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
34545 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
34546 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
34548 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
34549 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
34550 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
34551 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
34552 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
34554 o Major bugfixes (directory):
34555 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
34556 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
34558 o Minor features (controller):
34559 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
34560 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
34561 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
34562 from Robert Hogan.)
34563 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
34564 from Robert Hogan.)
34565 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
34566 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
34568 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
34569 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
34570 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
34571 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
34572 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
34573 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
34574 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
34577 o Minor features (misc):
34578 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
34580 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
34581 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
34582 the authority identity key.
34583 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
34585 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
34586 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
34587 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
34590 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
34591 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
34592 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
34593 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
34594 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
34595 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
34596 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
34597 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
34599 o Performance improvements:
34600 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
34602 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
34603 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
34606 o Deprecated and removed features:
34607 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
34608 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
34609 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
34610 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
34612 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
34613 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
34614 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
34615 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
34616 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
34617 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
34618 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
34619 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
34620 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
34623 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
34624 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
34625 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
34626 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
34627 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
34629 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
34630 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
34633 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
34634 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
34635 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
34636 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
34637 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
34638 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
34639 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
34640 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
34641 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
34644 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
34645 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
34646 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
34647 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
34649 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
34650 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
34652 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
34653 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
34654 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
34655 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
34656 routerlist while inserting a new router.
34657 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
34658 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
34660 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
34661 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
34662 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
34664 o Major bugfixes (security):
34665 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
34667 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
34668 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
34669 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
34670 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
34671 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
34672 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
34673 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
34674 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
34675 guard list unless we need to.
34677 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
34678 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
34679 don't get overused as guards.
34681 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
34682 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
34683 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
34684 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
34685 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
34687 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
34688 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
34689 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
34692 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
34693 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
34694 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
34695 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
34696 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
34697 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
34698 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
34699 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
34702 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
34703 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
34704 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
34705 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
34707 o Minor features (directory):
34708 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
34709 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
34710 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
34711 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
34713 o Minor build issues:
34714 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
34715 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
34716 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
34717 in the tarball, not as "x".
34720 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
34721 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
34722 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
34723 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
34724 forward on a lot of fronts.
34726 o Major features, server usability:
34727 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
34728 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
34729 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
34730 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
34732 o Major features, client usability:
34733 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
34734 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
34735 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
34736 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
34737 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
34738 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
34739 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
34740 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
34742 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
34743 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
34744 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
34745 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
34746 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
34747 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
34749 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
34750 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
34751 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
34753 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
34754 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
34755 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
34756 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
34757 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
34759 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
34760 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
34761 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
34762 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
34764 o Major features, other:
34765 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
34766 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
34767 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
34768 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
34769 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
34772 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
34773 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
34774 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
34777 o Minor fixes (resource management):
34778 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
34779 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
34780 our allocated connection limit.
34781 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
34782 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
34783 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
34784 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
34785 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
34787 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
34788 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
34789 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
34791 o Minor features (build):
34792 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
34793 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
34794 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
34795 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
34797 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
34798 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
34799 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
34800 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
34801 Use this version consistently in log messages.
34803 o Minor features (logging):
34804 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
34805 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
34806 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
34807 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
34808 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
34811 o Minor features (directory system):
34812 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
34813 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
34814 not to serve V2 directory information.
34815 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
34816 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
34817 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
34819 o Minor features (controller):
34820 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
34821 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
34823 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
34824 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
34825 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
34826 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
34827 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
34828 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
34830 o Minor features (hidden services):
34831 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
34832 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
34833 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
34834 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
34836 o Minor features (other):
34838 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
34839 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
34840 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
34841 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
34842 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
34843 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
34844 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
34845 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
34846 longer a completely silly thing to do.
34847 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
34848 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
34849 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
34850 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
34852 o Removed features:
34853 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
34854 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
34855 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
34856 back an error and close the connection.
34857 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
34858 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
34861 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
34862 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
34863 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
34864 makes the log messages nicer.
34865 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
34866 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
34867 partial results on small file reads.
34869 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
34870 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
34871 more often than they are allowed to appear.
34872 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
34873 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
34875 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
34876 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
34877 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
34878 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
34880 o Minor bugfixes (other):
34881 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
34882 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
34883 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
34884 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
34885 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
34886 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
34887 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
34888 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
34889 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
34890 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
34892 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
34893 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
34894 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
34896 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
34897 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
34898 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
34899 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
34901 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
34902 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
34903 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
34905 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
34906 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
34909 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
34910 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
34911 implicit in other procedure arguments.
34912 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
34913 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
34914 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
34915 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
34916 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
34917 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
34918 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
34919 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
34920 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
34923 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
34924 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
34925 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
34926 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
34928 o Directory authority changes:
34929 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
34930 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
34931 or use hidden services.
34933 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
34934 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
34935 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
34936 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
34937 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
34938 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
34939 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
34940 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
34941 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
34944 o Major bugfixes (security):
34945 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
34946 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
34947 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
34949 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
34950 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
34951 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
34952 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
34953 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
34954 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
34955 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
34956 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
34957 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
34958 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
34961 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
34962 purpose=controller.
34963 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
34964 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
34966 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
34967 having a hard time downloading.
34968 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
34969 partial results on small file reads.
34970 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
34971 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
34972 the gaps in the store get very large.
34975 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
34976 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
34978 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
34979 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
34982 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
34983 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
34984 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
34985 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
34986 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
34987 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
34989 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
34990 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
34991 free speech on the Internet.
34994 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
34995 get one we don't recognize.
34996 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
34997 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
35000 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
35002 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
35003 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
35004 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
35005 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
35008 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
35009 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
35012 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
35013 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
35014 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
35015 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
35016 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
35017 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
35018 ask for GUARDS too.
35021 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
35022 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
35023 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
35024 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
35025 on Win98 and friends again.
35027 o Minor bugfixes (other):
35028 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
35029 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
35032 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
35033 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
35034 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
35035 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
35036 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
35037 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
35038 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
35039 and maybe also bug 397.)
35041 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
35042 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
35043 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
35045 o Minor bugfixes (server):
35046 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
35049 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
35050 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
35051 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
35052 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
35053 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
35055 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
35056 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
35057 load on authorities.
35059 o Minor bugfixes (other):
35060 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
35061 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
35062 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
35064 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
35066 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
35067 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
35068 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
35069 the last of bug 326.)
35070 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
35071 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
35075 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
35076 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
35077 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
35078 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
35079 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
35080 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
35081 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
35083 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
35084 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
35086 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
35087 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
35088 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
35090 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
35091 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
35092 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
35094 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
35095 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
35096 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
35097 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
35099 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
35100 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
35102 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
35103 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
35104 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
35107 o Minor bugfixes (other):
35108 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
35109 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
35110 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
35111 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
35112 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
35113 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
35114 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
35115 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
35116 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
35117 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
35118 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
35119 other than file-not-found.
35120 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
35121 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
35122 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
35123 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
35124 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
35125 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
35126 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
35127 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
35128 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
35129 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
35130 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
35131 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
35132 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
35133 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
35134 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
35136 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
35138 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
35139 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
35141 o Minor features (controller):
35142 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
35143 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
35144 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
35146 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
35147 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
35148 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
35149 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
35150 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
35151 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
35152 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
35153 connected or resolved cell.
35155 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
35156 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
35157 some profiles, but not others.)
35158 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
35159 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
35160 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
35163 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
35165 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
35166 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
35167 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
35168 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
35169 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
35170 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
35171 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
35172 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
35173 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
35174 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
35175 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
35176 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
35177 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
35178 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
35179 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
35181 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
35184 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
35185 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
35186 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
35187 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
35188 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
35189 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
35190 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
35192 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
35193 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
35194 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
35195 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
35196 buckets go absurdly negative.
35197 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
35198 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
35201 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
35202 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
35203 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
35204 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
35205 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
35206 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
35207 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
35208 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
35211 o Major bugfixes (other):
35212 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
35213 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
35214 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
35215 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
35217 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
35219 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
35220 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
35222 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
35223 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
35224 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
35225 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
35226 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
35227 to wait for 0.2.0.)
35229 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
35230 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
35231 possible memory-stomping bugs.
35232 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
35233 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
35235 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
35236 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
35237 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
35238 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
35239 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
35240 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
35242 o Minor bugfixes (other):
35243 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
35244 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
35245 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
35247 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
35248 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
35249 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
35250 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
35251 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
35252 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
35253 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
35254 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
35255 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
35256 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
35257 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
35258 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
35259 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
35261 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
35262 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
35263 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
35264 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
35265 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
35266 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
35267 to the resulting address.
35270 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
35271 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
35272 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
35273 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
35276 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
35277 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
35279 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
35280 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
35281 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
35282 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
35283 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
35284 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
35285 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
35286 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
35287 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
35288 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
35289 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
35290 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
35291 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
35292 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
35293 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
35294 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
35295 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
35298 o Minor features (controller):
35299 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
35300 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
35301 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
35302 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
35303 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
35304 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
35305 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
35309 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
35311 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
35312 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
35313 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
35314 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
35315 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
35316 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
35319 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
35320 weren't planning to resolve.
35321 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
35322 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
35323 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
35324 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
35325 the controller from learning about current events.
35327 o Minor features (more controller status events):
35328 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
35329 learn when our address changes.
35330 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
35331 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
35332 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
35333 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
35335 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
35336 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
35337 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
35338 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
35339 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
35340 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
35341 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
35342 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
35343 are accepted by a directory.
35344 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
35345 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
35346 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
35347 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
35348 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
35350 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
35351 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
35352 about changes to DNS server status.
35354 o Minor features (directory):
35355 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
35356 too much load to the exit nodes.
35359 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
35361 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
35362 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
35363 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
35364 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
35365 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
35367 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
35368 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
35369 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
35371 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
35372 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
35373 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
35374 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
35375 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
35376 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
35377 config options if you like.
35379 o Minor features (config and docs):
35380 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
35381 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
35382 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
35383 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
35384 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
35386 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
35387 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
35388 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
35389 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
35390 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
35392 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
35393 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
35394 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
35395 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
35396 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
35397 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
35398 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
35399 documentation: "make check-docs".
35400 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
35401 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
35403 o Minor features (DNS):
35404 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
35405 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
35406 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
35407 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
35408 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
35409 our tests for DNS hijacking.
35411 o Minor features (directory):
35412 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
35413 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
35414 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
35415 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
35416 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
35417 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
35418 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
35419 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
35420 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
35421 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
35422 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
35423 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
35424 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
35425 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
35426 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
35427 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
35428 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
35429 for the thing we're trying to download.
35430 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
35431 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
35432 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
35434 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
35435 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
35436 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
35439 o Minor features (controller):
35440 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
35441 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
35443 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
35444 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
35445 entry guard status as it changes.
35447 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
35448 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
35449 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
35450 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
35451 to set log options.
35452 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
35453 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
35454 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
35455 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
35458 o Major bugfixes (security):
35459 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
35460 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
35461 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
35462 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
35464 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
35465 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
35466 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
35467 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
35468 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
35470 o Major bugfixes (other):
35471 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
35472 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
35473 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
35474 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
35476 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
35477 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
35478 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
35479 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
35480 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
35481 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
35485 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
35486 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
35487 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
35488 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
35489 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
35491 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
35492 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
35494 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
35495 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
35496 family lists conveniently.
35497 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
35498 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
35499 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
35501 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
35502 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
35504 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
35505 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
35506 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
35507 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
35508 if their identity keys are as expected.
35509 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
35510 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
35511 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
35513 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
35514 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
35515 reported by Mike Perry.
35516 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
35517 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
35518 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
35519 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
35522 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
35523 o Security bugfixes:
35524 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
35525 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
35526 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
35527 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
35531 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
35532 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
35533 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
35536 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
35538 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
35539 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
35540 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
35543 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
35544 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
35545 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
35546 watching for STREAM events.
35547 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
35548 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
35549 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
35550 operations, for profiling.
35553 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
35554 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
35555 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
35556 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
35557 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
35558 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
35560 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
35564 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
35565 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
35566 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
35567 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
35568 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
35570 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
35571 correctly in the Windows installer.
35572 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
35573 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
35574 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
35575 MIPSpro C compiler.
35576 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
35577 when we're running as a client.
35580 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
35582 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
35583 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
35584 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
35585 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
35586 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
35587 its circuits on demand.
35588 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
35589 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
35590 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
35591 connections more stable on average.
35592 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
35593 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
35594 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
35596 o Security bugfixes:
35597 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
35598 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
35601 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
35603 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
35604 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
35605 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
35606 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
35607 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
35608 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
35609 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
35610 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
35613 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
35615 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
35616 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
35617 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
35618 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
35619 routers for even longer.
35620 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
35621 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
35622 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
35623 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
35624 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
35625 caching HTTP proxies.
35626 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
35629 o Minor features, controller:
35630 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
35631 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
35632 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
35633 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
35635 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
35636 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
35637 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
35638 working much like those for circuit events.
35639 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
35640 about the current status of a router.
35641 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
35642 a router's status has changed.
35643 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
35644 can tell which events and features are supported.
35645 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
35646 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
35648 o Security bugfixes:
35649 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
35650 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
35653 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
35654 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
35655 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
35656 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
35657 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
35658 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
35659 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
35660 long nicknames where appropriate.
35661 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
35662 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
35663 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
35664 chews through many circuits before giving up.
35665 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
35666 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
35667 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
35668 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
35669 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
35670 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
35672 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
35673 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
35674 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
35676 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
35677 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
35678 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
35679 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
35680 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
35681 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
35682 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
35683 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
35684 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
35685 (reported by fookoowa).
35686 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
35687 and reported by some Centos users.
35688 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
35689 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
35690 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
35691 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
35692 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
35693 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
35694 before we check for libevent.
35697 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
35699 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
35700 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
35701 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
35702 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
35703 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
35704 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
35705 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
35706 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
35707 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
35708 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
35709 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
35710 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
35711 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
35712 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
35713 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
35714 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
35715 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
35716 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
35717 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
35718 lets you turn it off.
35719 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
35720 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
35721 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
35722 us into the directory more quickly.
35724 o New/improved config options:
35725 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
35726 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
35727 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
35728 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
35729 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
35730 all the machines on the same subnet.
35731 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
35732 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
35733 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
35734 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
35735 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
35736 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
35737 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
35738 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
35739 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
35740 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
35742 o Minor features, controller:
35743 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
35744 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
35745 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
35746 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
35747 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
35748 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
35749 for more information.
35750 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
35751 best guess to the user.
35752 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
35753 descriptor has changed.
35754 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
35756 o Minor features, other:
35757 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
35758 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
35759 useful to the network.
35760 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
35761 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
35762 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
35763 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
35764 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
35765 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
35766 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
35767 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
35768 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
35769 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
35770 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
35771 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
35772 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
35773 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
35774 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
35776 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
35777 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
35778 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
35779 could return an unnamed server instead.
35780 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
35781 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
35782 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
35783 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
35784 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
35785 a more attractive target for compromise.)
35786 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
35787 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
35788 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
35790 o Major bugfixes, other:
35791 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
35792 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
35793 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
35794 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
35795 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
35796 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
35797 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
35798 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
35799 its circuits on demand.
35800 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
35801 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
35802 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
35803 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
35805 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
35806 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
35807 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
35808 we don't recognize.
35809 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
35811 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
35812 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
35813 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
35814 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
35815 "extendcircuit" request.
35816 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
35817 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
35818 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
35820 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
35821 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
35822 instead of "X resolved to X".
35823 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
35824 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
35825 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
35826 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
35827 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
35828 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
35829 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
35830 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
35831 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
35833 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
35834 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
35835 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
35836 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
35837 result more than once.
35838 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
35839 non-versioning dirservers.
35840 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
35841 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
35843 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
35844 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
35845 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
35846 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
35847 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
35848 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
35849 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
35850 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
35851 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
35853 o Packaging, features:
35854 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
35855 now universal binaries.
35856 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
35857 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
35858 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
35860 o Packaging, bugfixes:
35861 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
35862 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
35863 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
35864 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
35866 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
35867 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
35868 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
35871 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
35872 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
35873 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
35877 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
35879 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
35880 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
35881 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
35882 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
35883 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
35884 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
35885 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
35886 it can't resolve its hostname.
35889 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
35890 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
35891 "extendcircuit" request.
35892 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
35893 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
35894 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
35895 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
35897 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
35898 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
35899 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
35901 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
35902 methods: these are known to be buggy.
35903 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
35904 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
35905 we don't recognize.
35908 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
35910 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
35911 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
35912 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
35913 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
35914 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
35915 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
35916 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
35917 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
35918 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
35919 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
35920 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
35921 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
35922 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
35923 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
35924 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
35925 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
35926 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
35927 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
35928 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
35929 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
35930 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
35931 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
35932 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
35933 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
35936 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
35937 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
35938 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
35939 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
35940 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
35941 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
35942 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
35943 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
35944 recommendation system saner.)
35945 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
35947 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
35948 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
35949 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
35950 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
35951 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
35952 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
35953 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
35954 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
35955 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
35956 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
35957 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
35958 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
35959 your ORPort is set.
35960 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
35961 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
35962 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
35963 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
35964 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
35965 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
35966 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
35967 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
35968 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
35969 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
35970 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
35971 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
35973 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
35974 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
35975 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
35976 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
35977 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
35978 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
35981 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
35982 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
35983 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
35984 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
35985 our DirPort now, etc.
35986 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
35987 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
35988 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
35989 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
35990 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
35991 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
35992 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
35994 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
35995 whether the config options are bad or good.
35996 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
35997 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
35998 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
35999 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
36000 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
36001 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
36002 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
36003 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
36006 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
36007 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
36008 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
36009 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
36010 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
36011 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
36012 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
36013 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
36014 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
36015 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
36016 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
36017 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
36018 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
36019 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
36020 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
36021 of it), is not therefore "up".
36022 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
36023 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
36024 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
36025 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
36026 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
36027 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
36030 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
36032 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
36033 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
36034 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
36035 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
36036 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
36037 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
36038 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
36039 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
36040 test reachability, so you won't publish.
36043 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
36044 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
36045 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
36046 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
36047 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
36049 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
36050 own server descriptor yet.
36053 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
36055 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
36056 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
36057 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
36058 make sure to test via one of these.
36059 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
36060 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
36061 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
36062 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
36063 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
36065 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
36066 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
36067 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
36070 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
36071 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
36072 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
36073 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
36074 directory authority.
36075 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
36076 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
36077 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
36078 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
36081 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
36082 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
36083 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
36085 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
36086 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
36087 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
36088 current guards when picking a new guard.
36089 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
36090 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
36091 when we had more than one pending.
36092 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
36093 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
36094 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
36095 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
36096 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
36097 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
36098 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
36099 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
36100 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
36101 debug the reachability problems better.
36103 o Log / documentation fixes:
36104 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
36105 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
36106 about protocol violations by others.
36107 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
36108 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
36109 about what happened to our old torrc.
36112 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
36114 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
36116 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
36117 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
36118 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
36119 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
36122 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
36124 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
36125 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
36126 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
36127 old ORPort and receive connections.
36128 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
36130 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
36131 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
36132 and network-statuses.
36133 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
36134 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
36135 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
36136 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
36138 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
36141 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
36142 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
36143 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
36146 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
36148 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
36149 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
36150 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
36151 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
36152 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
36155 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
36156 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
36158 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
36159 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
36160 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
36161 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
36162 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
36163 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
36164 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
36165 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
36166 rather than not sending anything back at all.
36167 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
36168 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
36169 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
36170 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
36171 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
36172 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
36173 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
36174 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
36175 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
36176 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
36177 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
36178 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
36179 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
36180 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
36181 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
36182 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
36183 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
36184 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
36185 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
36186 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
36187 default ulimit -n is 1024.
36190 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
36191 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
36192 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
36193 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
36196 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
36198 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
36199 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
36200 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
36201 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
36202 entry guards running these flawed versions.
36203 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
36204 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
36205 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
36206 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
36207 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
36210 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
36211 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
36213 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
36214 and it is confusing some users.
36215 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
36216 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
36217 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
36218 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
36219 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
36222 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
36224 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
36225 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
36226 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
36227 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
36228 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
36229 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
36230 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
36231 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
36232 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
36233 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
36234 dirport is set for now.
36236 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
36237 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
36238 unattached before we fail it?
36239 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
36240 at least this many seconds ago.
36241 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
36242 at least this many seconds ago.
36245 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
36246 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
36247 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
36248 or resolve-wait stream.
36249 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
36250 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
36251 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
36252 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
36253 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
36254 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
36255 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
36256 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
36258 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
36259 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
36260 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
36261 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
36262 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
36263 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
36264 given as hex digests.
36265 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
36266 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
36267 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
36268 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
36269 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
36270 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
36271 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
36272 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
36275 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36276 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
36277 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
36278 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
36279 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
36280 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
36281 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
36282 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
36283 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
36284 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
36285 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
36288 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
36289 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
36290 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
36291 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
36292 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
36293 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
36294 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
36297 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
36298 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
36299 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
36300 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
36301 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
36302 misreading their logs.
36303 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
36304 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
36305 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
36306 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
36307 valid router descriptors.
36308 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
36309 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
36310 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
36311 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
36312 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
36313 silently resetting it to its default.
36314 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
36316 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
36319 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
36320 use clean circuits.
36321 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
36322 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
36323 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
36324 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
36325 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
36327 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
36328 because older Tors do not understand it.
36329 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
36333 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
36334 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
36335 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
36336 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
36337 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
36338 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
36339 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
36340 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
36341 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
36342 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
36343 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
36345 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
36346 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
36347 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
36348 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
36350 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
36351 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
36354 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
36355 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
36356 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
36357 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
36358 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
36359 without getting overloaded.
36360 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
36362 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
36363 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
36364 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
36365 be forward-compatible.
36366 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
36367 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
36368 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
36369 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
36371 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
36372 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
36373 and OR conns to port 443.
36374 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
36375 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
36377 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
36378 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
36379 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
36380 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
36381 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
36382 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
36383 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
36386 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
36387 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36388 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
36389 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
36391 o Other important bugfixes:
36392 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
36393 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
36394 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
36395 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
36397 o Backported features:
36398 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
36399 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
36400 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
36401 without getting overloaded.
36402 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
36403 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
36404 503's whenever they feel busy.
36405 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
36406 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
36407 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
36408 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
36409 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
36412 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
36413 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
36414 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
36415 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
36416 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
36417 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
36418 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
36419 know if the crashes continue.
36420 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
36421 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
36422 seg faults in at least some cases.)
36423 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
36424 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
36425 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
36428 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
36429 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
36430 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
36431 try to be a bit more fair.
36432 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
36433 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
36434 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
36435 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
36436 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
36437 bug that let it go negative.
36438 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
36439 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
36440 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
36441 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
36442 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
36443 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
36444 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
36445 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
36446 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
36447 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
36448 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
36451 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
36453 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
36454 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
36455 service descriptors.
36458 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
36459 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
36460 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
36461 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
36463 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
36464 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
36465 versions *are* still recommended.
36466 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
36467 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
36468 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
36469 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
36470 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
36471 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
36472 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
36473 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
36475 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
36476 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
36477 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
36478 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
36479 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
36480 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
36481 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
36482 on it. Not used by clients yet.
36483 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
36484 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
36485 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
36486 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
36487 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
36488 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
36489 established a circuit.
36490 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
36491 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
36492 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
36493 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
36496 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
36497 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
36498 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
36499 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
36500 quickly enough. Oops.
36501 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
36503 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36504 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
36507 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
36508 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
36509 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
36510 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
36511 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
36512 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
36513 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
36514 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
36515 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
36516 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
36517 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
36518 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
36519 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
36520 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
36521 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
36522 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
36523 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
36526 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
36527 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
36528 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
36529 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
36530 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
36531 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
36532 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
36533 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
36534 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
36535 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
36536 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
36537 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
36538 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
36539 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
36540 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
36541 connections more reliable.
36544 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
36545 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
36546 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
36547 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
36548 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
36549 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
36550 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
36551 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
36552 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
36553 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
36554 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
36555 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
36556 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
36557 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
36561 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
36562 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
36563 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
36564 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
36565 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
36566 need to be uint64_t's.
36567 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
36568 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
36569 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
36571 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
36573 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
36574 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
36575 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
36576 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
36577 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
36578 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
36579 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
36581 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
36582 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
36583 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
36584 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
36585 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
36586 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
36587 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
36588 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
36589 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
36590 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
36591 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
36592 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
36593 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
36596 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
36597 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
36598 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
36599 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
36600 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
36601 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
36602 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
36604 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
36605 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
36606 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
36607 can answer v2 directory requests too.
36608 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
36609 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
36610 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
36611 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
36613 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
36614 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
36615 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
36616 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
36617 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
36618 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
36619 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
36620 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
36621 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
36622 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
36623 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
36624 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
36625 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
36626 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
36627 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
36629 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
36630 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
36633 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
36634 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36635 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
36636 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
36637 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
36638 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
36639 too -- so detect and avoid this.
36640 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
36642 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
36643 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
36644 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
36645 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
36646 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
36647 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
36648 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
36649 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
36650 rendezvous circuits.
36651 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
36653 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36654 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
36655 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
36656 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
36657 advertising it because of hibernation.
36658 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
36659 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
36660 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
36661 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
36662 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
36663 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
36664 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
36665 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
36666 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
36667 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
36668 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
36669 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
36670 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
36671 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
36674 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
36675 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36676 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
36677 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
36678 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
36679 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
36680 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
36681 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
36682 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
36683 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
36684 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
36685 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
36686 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
36687 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
36688 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
36689 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
36690 connections once a week.
36691 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
36692 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
36693 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
36694 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
36695 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
36696 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
36698 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
36699 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
36700 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
36702 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36703 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
36704 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
36705 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
36706 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
36707 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
36708 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
36709 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
36710 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
36711 firewall options forbid.
36712 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
36713 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
36714 can only proxy to certain destinations.
36715 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
36716 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
36717 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
36718 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
36719 aids some statistical attacks.
36720 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
36721 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
36722 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
36723 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
36725 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
36726 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
36727 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
36728 server descriptor sometimes.
36729 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
36730 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
36731 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
36732 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
36733 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
36734 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
36735 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
36736 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
36738 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
36739 case the controller wants to change that too.
36740 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
36741 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
36742 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
36743 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
36745 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
36746 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
36747 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
36749 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
36750 descriptors that they know they will reject.
36752 o Features and updates:
36753 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
36754 significantly faster.
36755 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
36756 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
36757 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
36758 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
36759 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
36760 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
36761 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
36762 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
36763 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
36764 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
36765 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
36766 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
36767 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
36768 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
36769 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
36770 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
36771 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
36772 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
36773 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
36774 as authoritative dirserver.
36775 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
36776 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
36777 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
36780 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
36781 o Usability improvements:
36782 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
36783 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
36785 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
36786 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
36787 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
36789 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
36790 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
36791 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
36792 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
36793 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
36794 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
36795 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
36796 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
36797 memory leaks better.
36798 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
36799 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
36800 their operators to pay close attention.
36801 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
36802 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
36804 o Performance improvements:
36805 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
36806 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
36807 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
36808 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
36809 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
36810 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
36811 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
36812 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
36813 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
36814 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
36815 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
36816 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
36817 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
36818 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
36819 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
36820 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
36821 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
36823 o Security improvements:
36824 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
36825 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
36826 fingerprint of server.
36827 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
36828 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
36829 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
36831 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36832 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
36833 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
36834 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
36835 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
36836 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
36837 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
36838 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
36839 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
36840 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
36841 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
36842 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
36843 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
36844 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
36845 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
36846 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
36847 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
36848 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
36849 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
36850 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
36851 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
36853 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
36854 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
36855 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
36857 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
36858 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
36860 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
36861 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
36862 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
36863 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
36864 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
36865 of the controller protocol.
36866 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
36867 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
36868 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
36871 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
36872 o New features (major):
36873 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
36874 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
36875 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
36876 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
36877 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
36878 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
36879 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
36880 we're using a default DirPort.
36881 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
36883 o New features (minor):
36884 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
36885 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
36886 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
36887 mirrors still cache and serve it).
36888 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
36889 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
36890 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
36891 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
36892 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
36893 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
36894 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
36895 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
36896 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
36897 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
36898 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
36899 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
36900 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
36901 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
36902 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
36904 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
36905 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
36906 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
36907 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
36908 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
36909 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
36910 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
36911 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
36913 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
36914 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
36915 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
36916 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
36917 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
36918 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
36919 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
36920 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
36921 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
36922 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
36924 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
36925 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
36926 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
36927 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
36928 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
36930 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
36931 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
36932 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
36934 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
36935 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
36937 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
36938 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
36939 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
36940 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
36941 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
36942 don't warn twice about the same name.
36943 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
36944 if we've not heard of the server.
36945 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
36946 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
36949 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
36950 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36951 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
36952 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
36953 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
36954 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
36955 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
36956 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
36957 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
36958 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
36959 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
36960 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
36961 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
36962 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
36963 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
36966 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
36967 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
36968 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
36969 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
36970 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
36972 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
36973 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
36974 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
36975 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
36976 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
36977 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
36981 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
36982 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
36983 nickname) is reachable by you.
36984 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
36987 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
36988 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
36989 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
36990 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
36991 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
36992 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
36993 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
36994 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
36995 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
36996 we fail to connect).
36997 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
36998 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
36999 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
37000 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
37002 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
37003 it was self-testing that told us so.
37006 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
37007 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
37008 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
37009 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
37010 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
37011 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
37012 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
37013 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
37014 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
37015 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
37016 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
37017 exit policy using him for any exits.
37018 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
37021 o New controller features/fixes:
37022 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
37023 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
37024 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
37025 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
37026 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
37027 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
37028 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
37029 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
37030 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
37032 o Start on the new directory design:
37033 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
37034 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
37036 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
37037 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
37038 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
37039 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
37041 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
37042 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
37043 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
37044 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
37045 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
37046 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
37047 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
37048 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
37051 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
37052 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
37053 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
37054 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
37055 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
37056 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
37057 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
37058 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
37059 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
37060 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
37062 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
37063 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
37064 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
37065 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
37066 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
37067 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
37068 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
37069 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
37070 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
37072 o Config option changes:
37073 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
37074 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
37075 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
37076 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
37077 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
37078 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
37080 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
37081 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
37082 people have started using them for spam too.
37083 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
37084 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
37085 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
37086 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
37087 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
37088 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
37089 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
37090 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
37091 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
37092 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
37093 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
37094 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
37095 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
37096 services faster on the service end.
37097 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
37098 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
37099 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
37100 it a fair shake next time we try.
37101 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
37102 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
37103 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
37104 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
37105 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
37106 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
37107 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
37108 able to discover them.
37109 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
37110 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
37111 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
37112 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
37113 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
37114 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
37115 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
37116 testing for reachability.
37117 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
37118 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
37120 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
37122 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
37123 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
37126 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
37127 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
37129 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37130 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
37131 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
37132 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
37135 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
37136 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37137 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
37139 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
37140 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
37143 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
37144 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
37147 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
37148 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
37149 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
37150 options, getinfo keys.
37153 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
37154 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37155 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
37156 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
37157 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
37158 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
37159 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
37161 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
37162 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
37166 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
37167 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
37168 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
37170 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
37172 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
37173 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
37174 circuit events and we go offline.
37175 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
37176 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
37177 you don't have enough intro points already.
37179 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
37180 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
37181 many bytes we've used in this time period.
37182 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
37183 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
37184 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
37185 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
37186 enabled by default yet.
37188 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
37189 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
37190 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
37191 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
37192 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
37195 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
37196 o New directory servers:
37197 - tor26 has changed IP address.
37199 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37200 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
37201 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
37202 pthreads libraries.
37203 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
37204 claims its dirport is 0.
37205 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
37206 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
37210 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
37211 o New directory servers:
37212 - tor26 has changed IP address.
37214 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
37215 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
37217 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
37218 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
37219 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
37220 ports that have changed.
37221 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
37223 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
37224 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
37225 Windows-style errno back.
37226 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
37228 want to make it an NT service.
37229 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
37230 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
37231 name, give the full name in our response.
37232 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
37233 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
37234 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
37235 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
37236 pthreads libraries.
37238 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
37239 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
37243 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
37244 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
37245 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
37246 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
37247 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
37250 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
37251 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37252 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
37253 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
37254 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
37255 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
37256 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
37257 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
37260 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
37262 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
37263 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
37264 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
37265 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
37266 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
37267 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
37269 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
37270 temporarily unreachable.
37271 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
37275 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
37276 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
37277 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
37278 our protocol works.
37279 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
37283 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
37284 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
37285 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
37286 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
37287 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
37291 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
37292 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
37293 libevent before 1.1a.
37296 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
37298 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
37299 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
37300 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
37301 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
37302 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
37304 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
37305 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
37306 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
37307 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
37308 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
37309 of CPU time plus memory.
37310 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
37311 normal web requests.
37312 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
37313 tor_lookup_hostname().
37314 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
37315 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
37316 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
37317 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
37318 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
37319 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
37321 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
37322 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
37323 HttpProxyAuthenticator
37324 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
37325 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
37326 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
37328 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
37329 the user asks you to.
37330 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
37331 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
37332 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
37333 their descriptors are being rejected.
37334 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
37338 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
37340 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
37341 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
37342 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
37344 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
37346 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
37348 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
37349 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
37350 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
37351 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
37352 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
37353 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
37354 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
37355 keys) from the exit server's process.
37356 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
37357 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
37358 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
37359 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
37360 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
37361 point at your Tor server.
37362 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
37363 you're not sending a socks reply back.
37366 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
37367 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
37368 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
37369 to make it easier to write controllers.
37372 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
37374 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
37375 installing on Tiger.
37376 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
37377 complain during installation.
37378 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
37379 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
37380 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
37381 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
37382 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
37383 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
37385 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
37386 something more reasonable when first installing.
37387 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
37390 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
37392 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
37393 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
37395 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
37396 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
37397 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
37398 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
37399 when using the default exit policy.
37400 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
37401 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
37402 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
37403 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
37404 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
37405 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
37406 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
37407 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
37408 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
37409 we fetched a new directory.
37410 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
37411 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
37414 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
37415 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
37416 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
37417 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
37418 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
37419 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
37420 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
37421 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
37423 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
37424 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
37425 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
37426 save memory on systems that need to fork.
37427 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
37428 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
37429 is valid without actually launching Tor.
37430 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
37431 rather than just rejecting it.
37434 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
37436 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
37437 we didn't like its cert.
37439 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
37440 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
37441 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
37442 on patch from Adam Langley.
37443 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
37444 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
37445 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
37446 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
37448 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
37449 directory every time you regenerate it.
37450 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
37451 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
37454 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
37455 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
37456 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
37457 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
37458 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
37461 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
37463 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
37464 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
37465 TLS errors better in other situations too.
37466 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
37467 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
37468 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
37469 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
37470 and don't log when you are.
37471 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
37472 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
37474 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
37475 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
37476 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
37477 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
37478 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
37481 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
37482 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
37483 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
37484 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
37485 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
37486 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
37487 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
37488 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
37489 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
37490 nickname+key are allowed.
37491 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
37492 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
37493 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
37494 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
37495 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
37496 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
37497 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
37498 have quite wrong clocks).
37499 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
37500 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
37501 - Efficiency improvements:
37502 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
37503 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
37504 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
37505 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
37506 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
37507 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
37508 lowercase and be done with it.
37509 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
37510 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
37511 to abandon partially built circuits.
37512 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
37513 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
37515 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
37517 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
37518 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
37519 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
37520 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
37522 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
37523 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
37525 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
37526 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
37527 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
37528 obeying the exit policy internally.
37529 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
37530 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
37532 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
37533 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
37534 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
37535 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
37537 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
37538 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
37539 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
37540 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
37541 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
37543 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
37544 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
37545 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
37546 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
37547 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
37548 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
37549 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
37550 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
37551 descriptors we just dropped.
37552 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
37553 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
37554 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
37555 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
37556 artificially capped at 500kB.
37559 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
37560 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
37561 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
37562 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
37563 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
37564 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
37565 busy for more than 100 seconds.
37568 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
37569 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
37570 - Fixes on reachability detection:
37571 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
37572 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
37573 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
37574 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
37575 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
37576 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
37577 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
37578 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
37579 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
37580 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
37581 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
37582 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
37583 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
37584 server not already connected to them.
37585 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
37586 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
37587 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
37589 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
37591 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
37592 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
37593 are in a different state than they actually are.
37594 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
37595 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
37596 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
37598 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
37599 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
37600 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
37602 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
37603 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
37604 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
37605 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
37606 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
37607 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
37608 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
37610 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
37611 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
37612 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
37613 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
37616 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
37617 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
37618 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
37619 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
37620 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
37621 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
37622 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
37623 creating actual system users.
37624 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
37625 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
37629 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
37631 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
37632 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
37633 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
37634 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
37635 hidden services better.
37636 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
37638 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
37639 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
37640 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
37641 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
37642 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
37643 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
37644 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
37645 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
37646 patch by Matt Edman).
37647 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
37648 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
37649 required exit node for certain sites.
37650 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
37651 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
37652 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
37653 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
37654 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
37655 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
37656 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
37657 rather than just "success" or "failure".
37658 - A more sane version numbering system. See
37659 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
37660 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
37661 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
37663 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
37664 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
37665 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
37666 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
37667 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
37668 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
37669 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
37671 o Robustness/stability fixes:
37672 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
37673 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
37674 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
37676 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
37677 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
37678 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
37680 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
37681 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
37682 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
37684 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
37685 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
37686 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
37687 that will want high uptime circuits.
37688 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
37689 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
37690 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
37691 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
37692 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
37693 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
37694 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
37695 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
37696 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
37697 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
37698 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
37699 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
37700 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
37701 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
37702 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
37703 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
37704 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
37705 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
37706 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
37707 when we try to launch one.
37708 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
37709 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
37710 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
37711 "ShutdownWaitLength".
37712 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
37713 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
37714 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
37715 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
37716 and to take errno into account where possible.
37719 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
37720 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
37721 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
37722 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
37723 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
37724 file more reasonable.
37725 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
37726 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
37727 addresses -- it won't.
37728 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
37729 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
37730 for google.com" problem.
37731 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
37732 so it's not just "unknown platform".
37733 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
37734 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
37735 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
37736 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
37738 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
37739 they could use instead.
37740 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
37741 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
37742 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
37743 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
37744 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
37745 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
37746 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
37747 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
37748 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
37750 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
37754 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
37755 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
37757 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
37758 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
37759 private-IP addresses.
37760 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
37761 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
37763 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
37764 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
37765 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
37766 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
37767 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
37768 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
37769 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
37771 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
37772 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
37773 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
37774 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
37775 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
37776 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
37777 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
37778 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
37780 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
37782 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
37783 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
37784 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
37785 whether the server is hibernating.
37788 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
37789 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
37790 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
37791 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
37792 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
37793 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
37794 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
37795 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
37796 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
37797 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
37798 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
37799 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
37800 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
37801 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
37802 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
37804 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
37805 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
37806 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
37807 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
37808 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
37809 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
37810 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
37811 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
37812 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
37813 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
37814 existing torrc files.
37815 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
37818 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
37819 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
37820 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
37821 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
37822 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
37823 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
37824 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
37825 the win32 SYSTEM account.
37826 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
37827 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
37828 file descriptors available.
37829 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
37830 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
37831 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
37834 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
37835 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
37836 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
37837 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
37839 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
37840 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
37841 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
37842 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
37843 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
37845 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
37846 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
37847 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
37848 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
37849 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
37850 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
37851 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
37852 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
37853 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
37854 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
37855 800kB/s of capacity.
37856 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
37859 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
37860 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
37861 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
37862 need as much processor time.
37863 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
37864 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
37865 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
37866 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
37867 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
37868 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
37869 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
37870 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
37871 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
37872 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
37873 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
37874 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
37876 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
37877 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
37878 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
37879 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
37880 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
37881 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
37882 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
37885 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
37886 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
37887 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
37889 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
37890 style address, then we'd crash.
37891 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
37892 a dirserver is broken.
37893 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
37895 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
37896 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
37897 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
37899 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
37900 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
37901 name out of the warning/assert messages.
37902 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
37903 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
37904 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
37906 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
37907 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
37908 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
37910 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
37912 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
37913 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
37914 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
37915 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
37916 values at once couldn't work.
37917 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
37918 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
37919 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
37920 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
37921 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
37922 they can handle any number of routers.
37923 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
37924 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
37925 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
37926 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
37927 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
37928 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
37929 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
37930 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
37931 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
37934 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
37935 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
37936 - Make hibernation actually work.
37937 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
37938 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
37939 don't use the stream status code.
37942 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
37944 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
37945 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
37947 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
37950 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
37951 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
37952 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
37953 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
37954 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
37955 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
37956 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
37957 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
37958 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
37959 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
37961 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
37962 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
37963 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
37964 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
37965 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
37966 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
37967 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
37968 - Make unit tests work on win32.
37971 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
37972 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
37973 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
37975 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
37976 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
37977 than just chopping them off.
37978 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
37980 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
37981 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
37982 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
37983 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
37984 right after sending the begin cell.
37985 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
37986 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
37987 exit nodes too. Oops.
37990 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
37991 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
37992 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
37993 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
37994 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
37995 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
37996 the user knows which one it's talking about.
37997 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
37998 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
37999 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
38002 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
38003 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
38004 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
38005 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
38007 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
38009 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
38010 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
38011 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
38013 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
38014 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
38015 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
38016 Clip rather than rejecting.
38017 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
38018 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
38021 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
38022 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
38023 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
38024 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
38026 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
38029 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
38030 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
38031 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
38032 win32 socket errors better.
38034 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
38035 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
38038 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
38039 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
38040 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
38041 so we don't see those messages days later.
38043 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
38044 - Make tor-resolve work again.
38045 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
38046 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
38049 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
38050 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
38051 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
38052 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
38054 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
38055 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
38056 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
38059 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
38060 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
38061 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
38062 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
38063 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
38064 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
38065 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
38066 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
38067 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
38069 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
38070 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
38071 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
38072 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
38074 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
38075 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
38078 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
38079 hibernation properties by
38080 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
38081 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
38082 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
38083 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
38084 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
38085 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
38086 get back to normal.)
38087 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
38089 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
38090 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
38091 to fill the last cell completely.
38092 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
38095 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
38096 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
38097 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
38098 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
38099 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
38100 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
38101 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
38102 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
38103 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
38104 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
38105 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
38107 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
38108 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
38109 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
38110 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
38111 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
38112 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
38113 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
38114 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
38116 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
38117 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
38118 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
38119 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
38120 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
38121 have it on start-up.
38124 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
38125 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
38126 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
38127 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
38128 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
38129 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
38130 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
38131 configuration to torrc.
38132 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
38133 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
38134 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
38135 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
38136 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
38138 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
38139 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
38140 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
38141 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
38142 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
38143 log more informatively.
38144 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
38145 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
38146 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
38147 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
38148 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
38149 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
38150 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
38151 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
38152 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
38153 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
38154 from each other, to hinder linkability.
38157 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
38158 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
38159 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
38160 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
38161 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
38162 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
38163 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
38165 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
38166 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
38167 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
38168 they ran out of file descriptors.
38169 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
38170 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
38171 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
38172 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
38173 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
38174 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
38175 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
38177 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
38180 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
38181 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
38182 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
38183 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
38184 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
38185 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
38186 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
38187 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
38188 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
38189 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
38190 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
38191 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
38192 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
38193 with the control port.
38194 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
38195 use in authenticating to the control interface.
38196 - New log format in config:
38197 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
38198 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
38201 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
38202 from their dirserver.
38203 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
38205 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
38206 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
38207 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
38208 them act more like real nodes.
38209 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
38210 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
38212 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
38213 nickname to its identity key.
38214 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
38215 not on the command line.
38216 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
38217 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
38218 1024) file descriptors.
38220 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
38221 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
38223 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
38224 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
38225 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
38228 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
38229 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
38230 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
38231 exit policy, not reject *:*.
38232 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
38233 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
38234 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
38235 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
38236 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
38237 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
38238 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
38241 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
38242 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
38243 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
38244 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
38245 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
38246 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
38247 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
38250 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
38251 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
38252 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
38253 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
38254 the ones we find in directories.)
38255 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
38257 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
38258 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
38260 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
38261 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
38262 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
38264 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
38265 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
38266 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
38267 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
38269 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
38270 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
38271 any more exit policy lines.
38274 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
38275 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
38276 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
38277 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
38278 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
38279 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
38280 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
38281 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
38282 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
38283 will be able to get a directory.
38284 - Http proxy support
38285 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
38286 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
38287 be routed through this host.
38288 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
38289 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
38290 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
38291 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
38294 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
38296 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
38297 clients/servers with an open dirport.
38298 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
38299 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
38300 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
38301 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
38302 intermittent connections.
38303 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
38304 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
38306 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
38307 in reporting stats locally.
38308 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
38309 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
38310 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
38313 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
38315 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
38316 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
38319 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
38321 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
38322 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
38323 if you don't want it open.
38324 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
38325 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
38326 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
38327 intermittent connections.
38328 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
38330 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
38331 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
38332 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
38333 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
38334 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
38335 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
38336 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
38337 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
38338 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
38339 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
38340 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
38341 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
38342 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
38343 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
38344 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
38345 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
38348 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
38349 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
38350 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
38351 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
38352 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
38354 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
38356 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
38357 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
38358 specified in HTTP 1.0.
38359 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
38360 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
38361 than once per minute.
38362 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
38363 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
38366 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
38367 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
38370 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
38371 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
38372 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
38373 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
38376 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
38377 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
38379 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
38380 don't put it into the client dns cache.
38381 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
38382 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
38383 until we get our next directory.
38385 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
38386 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
38387 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
38388 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
38389 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
38390 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
38391 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
38392 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
38393 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
38394 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
38395 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
38397 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
38399 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
38400 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
38402 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
38403 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
38404 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
38406 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
38408 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
38409 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
38410 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
38411 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
38412 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
38413 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
38414 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
38415 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
38418 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
38419 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
38420 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
38421 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
38424 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
38425 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
38426 ask them to resolve the host "".
38429 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
38430 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
38431 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
38432 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
38433 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
38434 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
38435 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
38436 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
38437 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
38438 clients don't use this yet.)
38439 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
38440 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
38441 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
38442 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
38443 for pointing out this bug.)
38444 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
38445 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
38446 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
38447 kazaa, gnutella ports.
38448 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
38450 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
38451 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
38452 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
38453 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
38454 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
38455 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
38456 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
38457 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
38458 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
38459 wolf unpredictably.
38460 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
38461 that's still handshaking.
38462 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
38463 you'll choose it for your path.
38464 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
38465 end relay cell, etc.
38466 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
38467 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
38468 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
38471 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
38472 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
38474 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
38475 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
38476 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
38477 list to decide who's running or verified.
38478 - Bugfixes and features:
38479 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
38480 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
38481 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
38482 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
38483 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
38484 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
38486 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
38487 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
38488 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
38489 know you might want to get it verified.
38490 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
38493 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
38495 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
38496 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
38497 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
38498 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
38500 o Protocol changes:
38501 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
38502 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
38503 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
38504 hadn't heard of before.
38507 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
38508 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
38509 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
38510 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
38511 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
38512 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
38513 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
38514 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
38515 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
38516 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
38517 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
38518 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
38519 - Directory caching.
38520 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
38521 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
38522 directory they've pulled down.
38523 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
38524 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
38525 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
38526 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
38527 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
38528 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
38529 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
38531 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
38532 This isn't used yet.
38533 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
38534 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
38535 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
38536 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
38537 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
38538 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
38539 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
38540 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
38541 - File and name management:
38542 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
38543 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
38545 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
38546 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
38547 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
38548 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
38549 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
38550 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
38551 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
38553 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
38554 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
38555 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
38556 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
38557 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
38559 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
38560 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
38561 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
38562 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
38563 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
38564 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
38565 - New docs in the tarball:
38567 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
38570 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
38571 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
38572 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
38575 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
38576 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
38577 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
38580 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
38581 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
38584 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
38585 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
38586 - Make it build on Win32 again.
38587 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
38588 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
38592 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
38594 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
38595 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
38596 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
38597 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
38598 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
38599 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
38600 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
38601 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
38602 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
38603 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
38606 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
38609 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
38610 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
38611 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
38612 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
38614 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
38615 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
38616 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
38618 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
38619 hidden service per 15-minute period.
38620 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
38621 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
38622 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
38623 o Fixes for security bugs:
38624 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
38625 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
38626 a trusted dirserver.
38628 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
38629 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
38630 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
38631 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
38632 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
38633 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
38634 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
38635 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
38636 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
38637 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
38639 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
38640 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
38641 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
38642 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
38644 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
38645 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
38646 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
38647 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
38648 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
38649 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
38650 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
38651 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
38652 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
38653 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
38654 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
38655 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
38656 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
38659 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
38660 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
38661 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
38662 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
38665 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
38666 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
38667 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
38668 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
38669 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
38670 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
38671 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
38675 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
38676 [version bump only]
38679 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
38680 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
38681 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
38682 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
38683 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
38685 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
38688 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
38689 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
38690 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
38691 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
38692 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
38693 o Better debugging for tls errors
38694 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
38695 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
38696 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
38697 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
38698 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
38699 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
38700 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
38701 o win32's close can't close a socket.
38704 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
38705 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
38706 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
38707 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
38708 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
38709 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
38710 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
38711 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
38712 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
38713 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
38714 just close the circ.
38715 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
38716 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
38717 (this was quite rare).
38720 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
38721 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
38722 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
38723 if you decrypted them correctly.
38724 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
38725 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
38726 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
38729 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
38730 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
38731 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
38732 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
38733 a second one and it works.
38734 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
38735 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
38736 alice would just have to wait to time out.
38737 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
38738 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
38739 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
38740 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
38741 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
38742 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
38743 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
38744 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
38745 i'd still like to find the bug though.
38746 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
38748 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
38752 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
38753 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
38754 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
38755 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
38756 he retries a couple of times
38757 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
38758 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
38759 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
38760 too long (they were sticking around forever).
38761 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
38765 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
38766 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
38767 - make hup work again
38768 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
38769 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
38770 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
38771 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
38772 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
38773 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
38775 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
38776 o changes from 0.0.5:
38777 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
38778 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
38779 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
38780 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
38781 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
38783 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
38784 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
38785 in-memory directories too
38788 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
38789 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
38792 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
38794 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
38795 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
38796 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
38797 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
38800 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
38801 [version bump only]
38804 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
38805 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
38807 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
38808 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
38809 but that aren't warnings
38812 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
38813 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
38814 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
38815 the dns farm to do it.
38816 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
38817 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
38819 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
38820 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
38821 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
38824 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
38825 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
38826 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
38827 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
38828 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
38829 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
38830 expect it to have a nickname.
38831 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
38832 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
38835 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
38836 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
38840 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
38841 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
38842 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
38843 - include missing header fcntl.h
38844 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
38845 - deal with hardware word alignment
38846 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
38847 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
38848 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
38849 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
38850 by kill -USR1 currently.
38851 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
38852 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
38853 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
38856 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
38857 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
38858 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
38861 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
38863 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
38864 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
38865 - And fix a few endian issues.
38868 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
38870 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
38871 try that circuit again: try a new one.
38872 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
38873 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
38874 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
38875 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
38876 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
38877 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
38879 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
38880 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
38881 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
38883 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
38885 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
38886 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
38887 side isn't reading right then.
38888 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
38889 RecommendedVersions
38890 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
38891 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
38892 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
38895 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
38897 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
38898 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
38901 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
38905 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
38907 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
38908 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
38909 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
38910 connection is finished.
38911 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
38912 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
38913 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
38914 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
38915 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
38916 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
38917 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
38918 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
38919 rather than warn and continue.
38920 - Make --version work
38921 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
38924 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
38926 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
38927 knows it's working.
38928 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
38929 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
38931 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
38932 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
38933 so you can collect coredumps there.
38935 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
38936 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
38937 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
38938 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
38939 dns cache actually gets populated.
38940 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
38941 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
38942 end cell down it first.
38943 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
38944 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
38947 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
38949 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
38950 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
38952 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
38953 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
38954 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
38955 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
38956 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
38957 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
38959 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
38961 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
38962 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
38963 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
38964 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
38965 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
38966 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
38968 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
38969 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
38972 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
38974 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
38975 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
38976 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
38977 tor. It even has a man page.
38978 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
38979 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
38980 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
38981 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
38983 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
38985 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
38988 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
38990 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
38991 it, apt-getters. :)
38992 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
38993 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
38994 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
38995 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
38996 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
38997 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
38998 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
38999 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
39000 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
39001 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
39002 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
39004 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
39005 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
39008 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
39010 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
39011 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
39014 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
39016 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
39017 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
39018 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
39019 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
39020 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
39021 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
39022 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
39023 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
39024 logfile so you know it's working.
39025 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
39026 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
39029 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
39031 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
39032 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
39033 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
39036 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
39038 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
39039 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
39040 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
39043 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
39044 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
39045 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
39047 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
39048 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
39050 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
39051 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
39052 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
39054 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
39055 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
39059 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
39061 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
39062 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
39063 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
39066 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
39067 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
39068 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
39069 - Add port ranges to exit policies
39070 - Add a conservative default exit policy
39071 - Warn if you're running tor as root
39072 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
39073 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
39074 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
39075 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
39077 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
39080 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
39081 o Robustness and bugfixes:
39082 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
39083 really screw things up.
39084 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
39086 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
39087 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
39089 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
39090 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
39091 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
39092 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
39093 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
39094 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
39097 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
39100 - Change default loglevel to warn.
39101 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
39102 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
39104 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
39107 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
39108 o Robustness and bugfixes:
39109 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
39110 - to get ownership/permissions right
39111 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
39112 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
39113 pull down a directory again
39114 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
39115 causing server crashes
39116 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
39117 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
39118 - exit if bind() fails
39119 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
39120 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
39121 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
39122 - fix minor bias in PRNG
39123 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
39126 - Wrote the design document (woo)
39128 o Circuit building and exit policies:
39129 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
39131 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
39132 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
39133 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
39134 exists, rather than failing
39135 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
39136 which AP connections are standing by
39137 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
39138 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
39139 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
39141 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
39142 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
39145 - APPort is now called SocksPort
39146 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
39148 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
39149 hardcoded (for dirservers)
39150 - Reloads config on HUP
39151 - Usage info on -h or --help
39152 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
39155 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
39156 o General stability:
39157 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
39158 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
39159 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
39160 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
39161 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
39162 to take down the network when I approve a new router
39163 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
39166 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
39167 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
39169 o Autoconf improvements:
39170 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
39171 - Make install now works
39172 - create var/lib/tor on make install
39173 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
39174 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
39176 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
39177 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
39178 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
39179 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup